"No, wait," she said, prompting him to hold before he'd managed to hoist the beast up, effort required or not. "Just hold on, broody, I have an idea." If AJ was a nagger, Algidus was certainly a sniper and a whiner. She had been meaning to do this for a while, but now seemed like a better time, or at least a more useful time, than not.

She pulled her proper blade from her belt and turned it on herself, slicing a ragged sleeve off of the jump suit until she could pull it loose by the seams. That done, pit-stain and all, she clomped over to the ice alien and wrapped it around his ankle. It was a bigger crack up close, now that she was staring right at it. She decided she wasn't going to joke about it anymore.

Standing back, she came around his front again and folded her arms over her chest. "We'll take breaks. You'll be fine."