"Suction!" He moved her left lung to the side and told me to keep it retracted.A few seconds later, "Yeah, here it is! The left subclavian artery's go...t a hole in it just above the aorta. Give me an arterial clamp! No, give me two clamps!" He closed one clamp over the subclavian to stopped the bleeding and another just above the diaphragm to keep her remaining blood available to her chest and her brain. The lower body would just have to do without for a while.He looked up at me and asked, "Do. “So that’s what I want. To say ‘yes’ and mean it. To be taken and… used. However you want.”I leaned back again, something nagging at me. Honest Johnson was telling me to leave it be, but I couldn’t.“Because I’m the only one here?”That made her smile.“Dumbass. No. I mean, I think it would have had to take something like this for me to even consider you - no offence, but cute ass or not, you’re a dumbass – but no, not because you’re the only here. You love me. I know that. I can trust. Is it because fifth level Martial Mortals found it in the past,’ he glanced up. ‘Or speculation of those who know that there should be more to this place, which is roughly below the Earthly Crater?’Zax lowered his head and squinted. The other side of the cave was in the range of twenty kilometers away. His cultivated vision, even further boosted by dark attribute energy, at best could vaguely make up the fuggy layout of the distant cave’s wall.‘Whatever. If I can’t get there it doesn’t matter. “I’m just tired,” he moaned. “I had to wake up from a short 12 hour sleep to ride an air-conditioned bus for 4 full hours. Of course I’m gonna be tired. “ Casey just looked at him as though he were stupid and left the room, looking for something to eat. Ethan followed, after somewhat shaking himself awake. After he found Casey looking in the fridge, he approached and hugged her from behind, whispering in her ear “I’ve missed you.”Casey blushed and turned to kiss him, before resuming her.