emergency -- she recovered the controls and threw the Annihilator into a tight turn away from the threat, throttling up again to try to find a quieter patch of space to get her bomber into a safer flight configuration and deal with the emergency. The automated systems had at least repaired the hole in the canopy, but the inside of the cockpit was still freezing as atmospheric control struggled to restore heat and air. Her mask pumped 100% oxygen into her mouth as her eyes absorbed all of the warnings in her cockpit. "Ma'am!" Kokai shouted, "Kayley! You ok?" It was only then that she felt an incredible pain in her left side and let out an agonised scream as she looked down and saw her own blood spattered all over the side of the cockpit. Her whole body shaking as she plunged into shock, Sena inexplicably found that her first irrational reaction was to tear off her oxygen mask and close her eyes, leaning her head back and trying to breath the cockpit's artificial atmosphere. She felt drowsy and a little warmer. "Kayley! Get your mask back on! Get your fucking mask on, now!" Sena returned her mask and felt her breathing begin to stabilise, but the pain was flaring up in her side again. She reached for the first aid pouch on her survival aids jacket and pulled out a simple field dressing, the same as bandages used by service men and women for hundreds of years. Packing