forum Find Me (Character Chat #4)

Started March 06, 2019 by Deleted user

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He laid her down gently, trying his best to not rock her as he slid his arms away.

Kiriti gently spread Tessa's broken and bent wings out, running her hands over them. She pulled back one and inspected the blood. "She's been poisoned. Her ichor is being repressed." She quickly instructed Cinthia to gather some gauze as she worked her magic. She cleaned up Rhianon's job and turned her attention to the wings while Cinthia worked to wrap the sterilized gauze around Tessa's middle. "Runner, I need you to hold her down," the kitsune said.

"Like, her arms?"

"Her body. This is going to hurt, and I really don't want to do this to her, but it will trigger her trauma."

He didn't really know how do do it, but he put his hands on her shoulders and put weight on his palms, nodding over to Kiriti

Cinthia took a place by Tessa's legs, holding them down too. Kiriti blew out a breath. "Here we go." She pulled on one wing, and Tess lurched up, thrashing against Runner and Cinthia as Kiriti worked as fast as she could to properly set the wing.

He winced as a fist struck hum in the face, but his grip never failed.

"Got it!" Kiriti quickly healed the wing and scurried over to the other one to repeat the process. Tess continued to thrash in her sleep. Cinthia muttered something and Tess calmed some, but she still arched her back in an attempt to free herself from Runner and Cinthia's grips.

There was a slight dribble of blood trickling from his nose , but other than that he appeared fine.

Kiriti set the other wing and healed it too. She grabbed a bottle from a cupboard and poured its contents into Tess's mouth. Tessa sagged, wings drooping and scraping against the floor. Kiriti noticed Runner's nosebleed and briefly touched his face, healing him too.

"Thank you," he said, standing back upright.

She nodded, then sighed and leaned against the wall. Cinthia rounded the table and cleaned the blood off of Tessa with a wet towel, dunking it into a bucket occasionally.

"I've got someone I need to talk to," he said, stepping out of the room and heading for the exit.

Neither one of them stopped him, and the rest of the Vanguard was in the sitting room, looking worried. None of them stopped him either.
Rhianon was outside, perched on a large tree branch and watching a pair of birds.

He shoved his hands deep into his pockets, walking over to the tree. "So, you have no clue what has been happening to me for the past 17 years?"

She shook her head sadly. She removed the pendent that made her voice more ethereal. "I cut contact with Agdrin and Chaos as soon as you were born. I prefer being alone, having been exiled from most places I've been to."

He scratched his face. "I guess I should tell you, then." He started from when he first met Tess and Cin, reflecting on everything like how he had in the moment. It took him almost 3 hours to finish, even with him forgoing the more romantic parts of him and Tess's relationship.

Rhianon listened quietly, nodding every once and a while. When he was done, her face looked pained. "So. You've met your sister, then."

"…Sister?"

She nodded slowly. "Half, to be exact. I had her a little less than a year after you."

He frowned. "Wait, who are we taking about, here?"

"I do not know her name, but I do know she lost an arm as a child in a car accident."

His eyes widened slightly. "Clover."

She tilted her head. "Is that her name?"

He nodded, rubbing his nose.