They continued moving onward out of the dangerous area and each time she looked back. The worse Sylas was beginning to look. Erica was getting really worried now, he was already looking like he was having a bad time, now he needed to stop before he fell over dead.

“Andrew, you go on ahead for right now. I think we’re gonna stay back and rest for a moment. I believe we’re in a safe enough region now that it’s alright for you to go off ahead of us now. If you see any horses or some sort of creatures that look fast. Come over and tell us.” Erica said, Andrew looked back at her and understood why she was stopping, looking over at Sylas who was hunched over.

“You sure you don’t want me to stay with you?” Andrew asked,

“Or me to go along with him, because I would much prefer to go gather more information on thes-” “I would like you to stay here Jonathan, just to keep me and Sylas company. But you should go, Andrew, no reason for us to hold you back from finding any animals.” Erica said, Andrew nodded softly. Almost disappointed, it almost made her feel bad for saying that he should go.

“Okay, I’ll come back if I find anything.” Andrew said, he walked off ahead of them and went around a building skyscraper to another block of the city. Erica turned around and looked at Sylas.

“Now what's wrong with you now Sylas? Why is your face drooping and heaving? Did you eat narcoberries?” Erica asked, Sylas scoffed in surprise.

“Noe, I only phap onccce.” Sylas slurred

“THEN WHAT DID YOU DO!!” Erica said, Sylas eye that was open widened.

“I bibn’p bo amyphing. Ponaphan bib ip. He bruggeb Ambrew’s pea wiph bemon.” Sylas slurred again, Erica turned to Jonathan who was pretending not to listen in to this as he was sketching and writing some notes down on the pterosaurs above.

“Jonathan.”

“You know it never occurred to me that there would be more descendants of pterosaurs besides Dimopho-”

“JONATHAN!! WHAT DID YOU DO?” Erica interjected loudly. Jonathan groaned as stared at Erica.

“I didn’t put any Titanoboa venom in Andrew’s tea. I was merely irritable with the fact that I had to explain myself again to this newcomer. And that for me entire introduction he couldn’t understand.” Jonathan said irritably,

“THEN WHAT IS WRONG WITH SYLAS!?” Erica shouted in a panic.

“Oh that, yeah I poisoned his tea with Titanoboa venom.” Jonathan answered. Erica's eyes widened.

“Why in the name of sanity did YOU DO THIS TO HIM!!!! HE LOOKS LIKE HE’S KNOCKING ON DEATH’S DOOR!!” Erica shouted,

“Relax Erica, it wasn’t a lethal dosage. If I wanted to kill him, I could’ve used a crossbow or a knife to the throat. He was just pestering me when making the tea that I couldn’t take any more of it. So I put a pinch of boa venom in his tea if he was so afraid of me putting something in someone’s tea. It might as well be his. Plus it was great fun hearing him suffer back there.” Jonathan said smiling slyly, but this was short-lived. He then gasped in shock as Erica slapped him over the side of the head. She then grabbed the shirt he wore and pulled him in the direction so that he stared into her furious eyes

“When we get back and we will, I will make sure you will do every dirty and filthy job back at the base until I find it fit for you to be done with them.” Erica said seething, Jonathan scooted as she held him there.

“It was only a harmless prank.” Jonathan said, Erica glared at him intensely.

“And this ‘harmless’ prank could have killed him if one of those enforcers or defense units targeted us!! And we could’ve been injured in the process.” Erica growled as she shoved him back and she helped Sylas sit down and then went off.

“Now where are you going?” Jonathan asked, she turned and scowled at him.

“Getting stimberries for Sylas, like you are going to do too. We need to get him back on his feet at a hundred percent before we go taming some animals. Hopefully, we can get him to their so we can catch up to the new guy. I don’t like leaving him out of our sight.” She said, Jonathan groaned as he dragged his feet. He looked back at Sylas who seemed to be getting worse and rolled his eyes.

“Should have not pestered me while I made tea. Good thing you didn’t drink mine though. Probably would’ve died with the amount of poison in it.” He said, Sylas looked up with his one half-opened eye. And he just started blabbering nonsense. Jonathan rolled his eyes.

“Just shut it, you can’t do anything as long as the narcotics are in your system. Then I’ll have a comeback for whatever you blurt out once you can speak properly again.” He said as he walked away to find berries.