( ever since he had managed to struggle through his enervation and fumble his way through the thin membrane of the alien egg he'd awoken in (and subsequently been dragged off to alternating confinement and interrogation for a few days), he'd wanted to go back. with such a bizarre occurrence, of course he wanted to have another look around. after days of being questioned, all he has are questions, and none of them were getting satisfactorily answered just wandering around through the camp. where are they? how did they get there — and why did it involve a big, gooey eggsack? for what purpose were they here in the first place?

really, yuuta doesn't expect to find much, but it seems as good a place as any to begin.

dried blue ooze coats the floor; he is careful in the placement of each of his footsteps as he makes his way back into the central chrysalis, and it seems he isn't the only one who had this idea. going off what little he remembers from his strained few minutes here on ethyraia, he's made his way back to the egg he'd woken up in, and someone else is investigating the same space. actually — someone else is picking up something which makes yuuta's eyes go wide. )

Ah - excuse me? ( the item in question that you are holding is a katana, encased in both a sheath and a case which could be slung over one shoulder. ) That's mine. So, if you wouldn't mind...

( feel free to doubt him. this kid looks like a stiff breeze would snap him in two. )

a. ( when forming the rescue team, yuuta had silently fallen into rank, seemingly not the type to try to shoulder the mantle of leader. as soon as they arrive to the location of the research team's last whereabouts, however, he shoulders past the other squad members as soon as he sees the first injured man. he takes a knee alongside him, murmuring some questions and assuaging words to him as he grisly sight of what had once been an arm and shoulder. he keeps speaking to him as he lifts a right hand to the wound — anyone nearby with any affinity for magic or the supernatural might see it wreath in bluish-black energy which he applies to the space. it doesn't do anything as miraculous as grow his arm back, but it does staunch the bleeding and begin to knit together the mess of degraded flesh.

to stabilize the injured man was yuuta's priority first and foremost, and when he feels he's done what he can to prevent him from any immediate further injury or death, he stands and returns to the rest of the group. on the way here, there hadn't been much to him or his presence — it wouldn't be odd to think him a fool to come along at all, based on appearance alone — but with the dire situation at hand, his mien changes. he grows serious and, honestly, a little uncanny. )

Going in there without any plan could wind up only putting the scientists in more danger. ( and if that's the case, why had they even come all the way out here? )

b. ( so what does one do in the aftermath of the big fight, valiantly endeavoring to save a group of wayward scientists from certain, bloody death at the teeth (and tentacles?) of a massive colony of space rats?

well, you figure out how to get back in one piece. the road out here had been long, and now that they had to return — through the same acid rain that had stranded these researchers out here in the first place and now with many among their number injured or unable to walk — that road seemed to stretch longer still. with the recovering group huddled under the shelter of an overhanging crag, yuuta studies the people and their supplies with his hand at his chin, mentally working out potential solutions. unfortunately, there aren't many that are terribly satisfactory. even the riskiest plans would still mean slow going returning to the leviathan. )

Rigging some stretchers for those who can't walk would be best, but I don't think we have enough rain shields to protect that kind of surface area... ( it might seem at first that he's just talking to himself, but then he turns to you to rope you into this deliberation. ) It's either that or we carry them on our backs, but that would make it even harder to get around. What do you think?

( leaving them behind doesn't seem to be an option to yuuta. )

( anything not encompassed above! feel free to pm me if you want to discuss or work anything out. )