Alyz realised it had been Tomma who had grabbed her at about the same time she realised he'd made a slight mistake in the entry point for Bay 2. She saw the concrete floor about eight feet below and hit it with her face before the darkness fully lifted.
"For fuck sake Tomma, you could have warned me."
It was hardly the way to talk to a deity, but Alyz hurt. Not just the hole in her middle, but everywhere. She had the need to gulp large lungfuls of air, even though she was aware of being able to survive without breathing at all. Alyz moved up onto all fours and gasped and retched as her body recovered from being dragged through whatever void gate Tomma had pulled her through.
"Sorry. Sevril was almost on you. You'll be fine soon." Tomma said.
She turned her head to look at him and was shocked to see Tomma looked as though he'd been through a battle. It had never occurred to her that a deity could be injured, yet he had several large claw marks across his face and a deep dark gash right across his chest. Even his skin looked greyer and older.
"Are you alright ?" She asked him.
There was a sting in her abdomen and she noticed a version of Chlo was examining her and fixing some kind of device to her wound. Alyz hadn't even noticed her arrive.
"I'll heal," said Tomma, "but it was worth it."
Chlo was tutting and pushing Alyz onto her back on the hard concrete, while she fixed another device on her arm. Alyz felt mildly sleepy, but the pain in her middle had now almost gone.
"I killed them both Tomma," she said, "that'll set her back millions of years."
"Indeed it will, but there was something else, something worth being beaten for."
Alyz looked at him and heard Chlo mutter as the sleepy feeling increased. Tomma-Goran was beaming at her. His face looked like a hatchet had been used on it and he could hardly stand, but as she drifted off to sleep, Alyz heard him say.
"Sevril is so angry that next time I challenge her..... I think she'll accept."
