Brigs was not happy that his men lost the girl - the only specimen that accepted the chemical. He knew the effects were going to soon take over her; it will all be useless if she's not present for him to monitor her progress - to make sure everything happens exactly. Manipulating the mind and body is a delicate and tedious game to play. If he was going to be successful with his plans to make Adecca happy, he'll have to find her now before all hell breaks loose.
"Find her! I don't care what you have to do... Someone helped her, you say? Then, track them both! To find one, you might have to find the other!"
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The cool morning breeze woke Alicia up from her deep sleep. She found the fire had died, and Shadow was no longer there. Sitting up, she wasn't sure if she had just drank too much garbage can punch and hallucinated last night's fiasco, or just had a majorly vivid dream. All in all, when she carefully stood up to put her jacket on, rubbing her eyes and looking around, she knew some part of last night was real. She had no clue where she was.
She began to walk around the little camp area, searching around for some sign of civilization. "Shadow?" she called, almost laughing at herself thinking she was just calling out to a figure from a dream.