Should be in a blister pack in the first aid kit with, uh, can you see symbols I think at you? Looks like this -

She has to concentrate hard to pick up images from a non-Mindspeaker, but she can manage, and fishes it out for Julie. 

:I want to have a closer look at what's going on in your blood. But I can wait to actually do anything until you're done with this: 

And she focuses in deeper, on one of the clumps that seems to be forming. 

The thing in Julie's blood seems to be trying to form a free-floating crystal like the ones that were trying earlier to poke through the skin. 

Julie takes the adrenaline tab and fiddles with her hand terminal and, once the tab hits, composes a message for Dawes; ideally it'd be something that relies on information only he has to put together, so he can use it to figure out what happened and other people can't. She's worried that if she aims too obscure it'll just sound like the ramblings of a dying lunatic, though. Halfway through she starts crying, which is embarrassing. 

Maybe it's in her head but by the time she's done talking she's in way more pain. She stops the recording and lies down and whimpers.

Crushing the life out of the crystals seems awfully risky, here, and also the Proto is...learning defences against it? (Shavri hates it, and she's also deeply uneasy about whatever the thing is doing in Julie's brain.) 

She feels like she's just playing catch-up here, slowing and inconveniencing the Proto but not making real progress - though a quiet voice in the back of her mind whispers that maybe this is the best she can hope for. 

:Do you need more painkillers?: she asks Julie. 

Might, yeah.

:Does the first aid kit have anything better than what I've been giving you?:

Probably not, people snort the good stuff so no one puts it in first aid kits. There's a vague background implication that about thirty percent of people spend all their time doing drugs.

....Shavri decides to worry about that baffling and weirdly upsetting snippet LATER. She gets out the second vial of poppy-syrup that she managed to obtain on her way back. At some point the poor village apothecary is going to want money from her for this and she doesn't actually have any of the Heraldic tax-reduction tokens they often use instead of hard coin. 

(Her breasts are really hurting.) 

She settles herself in a comfortable position and dives in deeper, studying the exact fine structure inside the beginnings of the crystal, looking for the most fragile part. 

The crystal is trying to - absorb bits of Julie's blood? Tiny bits, at the very edge of what Shavri can see, when they brush against the crystal in the bloodstream. The crystal is trying to grab hold of them and take strength from them and then, usually, let them go.

Shavri is very frustrated with the Proto and is starting to run short on ideas for what to do. She wonders briefly if she could somehow, what, armor Julie's blood cells against it? But they're so small and there are so many and it feels impossible. 

She sighs and refocuses her Sight on the very center of the crystal rather than its outside; what's holding it together? How is it distributing and using the life-energy it's grabbing? 

It seems like whatever is going on there is too small for her Sight to get a good look at. It's a lot. There's things rippling through the center, coordinating the edges of the crystal - but it's like trying to focus on something miles and miles away on the horizon, it's all so small -

She is going to have SUCH a headache later. 

Well, she can see the ripples, and they seem important. If she pokes at the coordinating-center part with her Gift - not hard, but very precisely, a lot like what she's done on mice when she was studying nerves - what happens? 

Disarray! The crystal stops what it is doing and - draws itself inwards? Starts reshuffling?

- Promising? But if she gives it any time to react it'll get smarter. 

Shavri pokes it again. And again. And again.

Can she get it disorganized and drawn-inward enough that her Gift can clamp down on it and squish it easily rather than with great difficulty? 

When she tries to crush it it dies as easily as it did the first time, instead of how it did the most recent time.

The Proto elsewhere scatters and flees, again. Julie shivers.

:- Are you all right? What did that feel like?: 

Suddenly really - achey? Tingly? Fuzzy? Dunno, really - what'd you do -

:I found a trick to make it easier to kill the crystals, and I got one. I don't think that's what you felt, though? I think...when I attack some of it, the rest seems to notice, and it sort of - runs away and hides inside you?: 

She broadens her Sight again; does the Proto's rapid movement seem to have any effects on the overall flows and patterns of Julie's lifeforce? Is it causing harm to her each time this happens?  

It seems to take something out of her when it suddenly moves or hides; she's considerably weaker now.

She shivers. That's - bad. Isn't it.

:I don't like it! Normal infections aren't smart like that - but we know this is smart. And...probably it won't get smarter as long as it's just inside you, right? It...might learn things, so I need to be careful of that, but I don't think it'll get better at learning:

No, it would need to eat more people to do that... 

:I want to kill the other clumps in your blood before they can get any bigger, because usually it's better to hit things when they're small, but it does seem to weaken you - I think it's drawing life-force from you directly, somehow? So I need to be careful not to push it too hard. Maybe you'd better drink some more cider and try to sleep and I'll just do general Healing to help strengthen your body, so we can try more things later. What do you think?: 

Can do that, yeah. Kit won't have painkillers but it will have sedatives, if we need that.

Do you mind if I put on music?

:I don't mind, no:

She's getting really tired at this point, and she MISSES JISA. But - she isn't getting ahead enough, she can't afford to leave Julie overnight, especially not when food and water and rest all seem to help the Proto as much as they help her. 

Shavri settles back again, and this time hunts, specifically, for places where the Proto isn't, or isn't as strongly - where she might have a chance at sending unformed Healing-energy directly to Julie and not having it all snatched up instantly. 

The Proto has spread out pretty thoroughly but there's not much in Julie's bones, especially not anywhere where it couldn't be fed by blood vessels.

Well, bones aren't the ideal place to send generic Healing-energy, but she might as well have a go at knitting the fractured bones in her hand.

And then she pokes around aimlessly for a while, mostly sending little pushes of Healing-energy and then watching, very closely, to see how Julie's life-force responds and how the Proto does. It's very good Sight-practice, really. Though she could do without the throbbing headache. 

Eventually she checks if Julie has successfully consumed any more cider and whether she's sleeping now. 

Julie sipped a bit more and is sleeping. The protomolecule seems to flock to healing energy when it's available, and is definitely in better shape, but so is Julie. 

Julie's hand terminal is playing strange angry music.