[quote=@Stabby] Record: That's a fair assessment. ...Right now though, making a prompt choice will likely lead to better results, simply because of time not wasted. Opportunities may be missed regardless, but more is lost over indecision than what isn't. Record: *Sees it happen and immediately acts, manifesting a unstable knife and cutting off two warm, dimly glowing things from beneath my hair.* Take these and hide. *Quickly tossing them to Shinji, I make a mad dash towards the portal as my form vanishes from sight. Within a second my form reappears as I drop in and quickly take stock of the situation. I manifest an unstable platform to land on and walls form the shape of a cube soon after I'm down. Sparing no hesitation in my eyes or my actions, I quickly attempt to slice out any infected parts of her body with some extra margen to anticipate the continuing encroachment of the amaranthine and throw them aside.* [@Valiance] [/quote] Shinji: * takes the items, placing them in my jacket. I then go back into the room we were in, before* *as soon as you fly in, the portal closes behind you. Itcseems as if the area itself attempts to close in on you, deteriorating anthign it may ocme into contact with. The faster you work, the quicker the infection spreads, as if doubling in speed with each cut you make*