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She had been there when the pidgeot landed at the outpost, when they hefted Liam's limp little body onto Ran's back, when everything went to hell. Nyx had not handled it well; When they carted everyone away, she was in such a state of shock that she wasn't sure what she'd done for the rest of the night. But after she heard from one of the doctors that everyone, Mau, Liam, Miss Nadja, that Sorano guy, was alive- even if they were in terrible shape- she had calmed down considerably. She couldn't visit Miss Nadja or Liam yet, and she didn't really know the green haired man, but they were still in rough shape and drug induced comas. Nyx was nervous about visiting Mau; He'd gotten hurt protecting her, and as a result she had come away relatively unharmed.

Nyx made a stop at the kitchens to build up courage before seeing Mau. She could hide her feelings behind a plate of cookies.

There was a light knock on the door, the handle turned, and Nyx slowly pushed it open, peeking her head in. "...Mau?" She squeaked out. It took her a moment to pick out where he was in the room, and resisted the urge to turn and run away when she finally did. He looked like one of her experiments.

Nyx stepped in and closed the door behind her. "I... uh... made cookies." She set the plate down on the bed tray next to Mau. When she was closer it was plain that her eyes were puffy and red, like she'd been crying. Nyx scratched her head, the way she did when she was nervous, and tried not to look directly at Mau.

"R-really? It's only been a day..." Her voice sounded timid, which was an odd volume for the normally boisterous scientist. She looked at something on the wall next to her and started to fiddle with it. It was so interesting, this thing, she had to touch it, and this other thing over there. Nyx touched everything near her she could that didn't look like it was important or that she could break it. She was impeded in her fidgeting by the fact that her right hand was bandaged.

"I'm fine..." Thanks to you, she thought. Nyx held up her arm and gave a single weak chuckle, "This is all that I got... Because I punched that guy..." If situations were different Nyx would have been bragging about how she knocked the old man out and stole his rapidash and how awesome it was, but things had not ended well, and she didn't feel so proud now. She actually looked guilty, but not about the old man, no.

"I'm not sure what happened... Something exploded, and then that chandalier fell..." Her voice trailed off, the sound of that event still hadn't stopped. Any time she thought about it, she heard the shattering crystal. "Liam and the others didn't get so lucky... but they're still here..."

Nyx cracked a small smile at Mau when he praised her punching achievement. She'd never punched anyone before, but she'd been caught up in the moment; If only someone had told her that it would hurt on her end too. She nodded at Mau's other questsions. Everyone made it back and, as far as she knew, no one had died. At least none of their team mates.

"Oh!" Nyx looked at the plate of cookies and then at Mau. "Yeah." She picked one of the baked goods up and held it up to his face. It was strange, seeing Mau so... infirmed. She would have rather had him up and picking on her any day, rather than laid up in the hospital, not even able to eat a cookie without help.

Nyx smiled, even though it looked like she could start the same activity that made her eyes red and puffy at any moment. "I don't know... I think you-" her voice cracked and she paused, took a deep breath, and continued. "I think you pulled the old human shield to get out of swim lessons trick..."

Nyx grabbed one of the cookies off of the plate and started eating it, "Well, if that was all you wanted. I'll just eat all of these myself." She wasn't serious, but she huffed and pretended like she was hurt and taken advantage of. It wasn't a good act; Like Miss Nadja had said, she was a poor actress. If Nyx heard what Mau had said after that, she made no indication. She just kept chewing her cookie defiantly at him.

"Good..." Nyx looked at Mau, a hint of sadness in her eyes again for just a moment, and then she pushed it back down again. She didn't visit Mau to be sad, she visited to bring him cookies and see how he was, and making him upset wasn't going to make him better any time soon.

"Mn." She nodded, "I will. I was planning on visiting Miss Nadja and Liam when they were ready for visitors... but that will probably be when we're back on base." Nyx picked up another cookie. Cookies made everything better; She knew there was a reason she took up baking. "Do you want another?" For some reason, seeing Mau smile was cheering her up.