Honestly, Octavia should probably have bowed out of this mission hours ago. The mysterious attack she'd underwent earlier had certainly left her with a sense of empty determination that needed directing somewhere, but for all her crude on-the-move first aid attempts, Octavia is no healer and she's definitely starting to slow down.

That isn't enough to stop her though. While her motivations to be out in the thick of things might have shifted from the protection of her friends to the need to assess the risks these new arrivals might pose to her personally, it's still a pretty powerful motivation, and even if her walk has become something more of a limp she still wields the machete with a certain ferocity. She's not done being useful to this party just yet.

"Yeah, it only sounds like one," she comments after Kate, content to let others handle the immediate threat being posed once the possibility of survivors has been rekindled. Her priority has become finding the crew members who had managed to get on the ship and--

...honestly, she's still not sure what is going to come after that, just yet. It's surely telling that she makes no effort to stow away her weapon as she quietly approaches the direction of Kate's gesture from one angle, making a quick movement with her hand to suggest another comes from the other side. After all, monster attacks would make anyone skittish, right? It's like with any trapped animal, of course the survivor would try to run. It makes sense to try and prevent that.

Right?