...! [ Even though she's already low to the ground, she instinctively ducks her head as the nata sails overhead: ] Careful!--

--huh? Hardly. [ Formally, the facility had been a cutting-edge centre for biotechnology and magitek research and weapons development. Informally, if some of her more scathing friends were to be asked, it was for unconscionable mad science. ] But I've also never heard of a sp-- a geologist hearing a dragon and going to investigate.

[ OK, one last heave and that ought to do it, before said dragon or whatever unseen beast decides to show itself at the worst time possible: ]

Ready? One, two--