The ten minutes pass slowly.
Zhang Xi finishes treating Rhayne and Veric before we're halfway through them. The blood is gone from Rhayne's face, and Veric can already move his shoulders without the stiffness Azure Dividend left behind after the last hit. Even so, nobody suggests cutting the break short.
I check what the whole team is doing, and for a moment their movements almost look normal.
Freya stays seated with the scythe across her legs, rebuilding the small fissures in the blade with Permafrost. Zhang Xi goes over her own equipment and then watches the Heart pillar. Veric strips part of Undertow's housing, clears the stone fragments caught between the plates, and closes it all up again.
The one who puzzles me most is Rhayne, and she's still connected to Veric through the Link, even during the break.
