122. Circumstances

[corrinesbell]

[To think it was just a regular day.

Sheena stumbles her way around from the back of house 18. One arm is braced against the outside wall of the house, the other useless. It's a slow, staggering kind of walk. When she runs out of house, she manages to move just a few more feet, into the road, before crashing to the ground again. Mercifully, her journal comes loose from where she had carried it at her waist, and ends up open, pages face down.

It's just out of her reach; her fingertips brush against it but she can't turn it over. Maybe having it open is enough]

I-I...need help. ...Please.

[[ooc: Follows almost immediately after this log, meaning it's Thursday up in here. The log is unfinished so far but we wanted to avoid some insane backdating/the chance that LJ murders itself again. So!]]

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[wise_maiden]

[Raine will hover to make sure she can handle it it at the first sign of trouble. It's the kind of thing that if you don't have the strength to hold it up, only doing it one-handed won't help any better. The straw should help though - at least Sheena wouldn't have to lift it too far. Besides, all of this does is confirm just how poorly the ninja is really doing--actions louder than words. But she hopes that Sheena won't downplay it too much, given she does have to heal her.]

[corrinesbell]

[she's had enough lectures and is too weak to really downplay anything. But she does seem to be able to hold the bottle long enough to drink about half of it. Then a dizzy spell takes over and she has to shut her eyes and not move for a minute.]

[wise_maiden]

[She'll take the bottle from her then. No need to finish the whole thing, after all.]

... Easy. Take it easy, Sheena. [She'll move some of those pillows again, so that she's a little more reclined.]

[corrinesbell]

[Thankfully the spell passes quickly, and being more reclined will ensure it doesn't keep happening every few minutes.]

Sorry. I'm okay now. Thanks for the water.

[wise_maiden]

You're welcome. [She sets it down on a nearby table.]

Let me have a look at your arm now.

[corrinesbell]

[a nod, and a glance down at her right arm where it's resting on top of the blanket. She doesn't even want to try moving it, and won't unless Raine prompts her to. Mithos' surprise attack had caused the break, and she can't imagine continuing the fight with him did it any good.

Under the splint it's swollen and sore]

[wise_maiden]

[Raine walks along to the other side of the bed to get a better look, undoing the splint temporarily so that she can see the extent of the damage. Fortunately, she's no stranger to broken arms like this.

She hovers her hands over the exposed injury, concentrating with her eyes closed.]

[corrinesbell]

[Sheena closes her eyes too. That arm has been aching, even with the things that others have done to try to help her. But this concentrated healing actually takes the edge off. It's such a relief.]

[wise_maiden]

[Whomever else had treated her may not have been too experienced with the magic that Raine's using; in any case, a glow will spread over Sheena's arm, expand, sink in while Raine's fingertips hover over it, maintaining it. She may very well feel the break repairing itself, the pieces slowly melding back together.

The arm will still be tender, of course, but whole. The soreness can be somewhat relieved with her usual magic, anyway. But one step at a time.]

[corrinesbell]

[it was a pretty bad break - both bones in her forearm - but at the sensation of her bones fusing back together her eyes open quite wide.

It doesn't hurt, exactly. It feels like it should but there isn't any pain that she can pinpoint. Sheena watches Raine now, the soft glow of familiar magic and all her concentration on her work.

The swelling is even going down. Sheena is suitably impressed by all of this. She's heard Raine discuss difficulties with healing magic before and this has been one of them. She tries her absolute best not to move now until Raine is finished.]

[wise_maiden]

[Concentration takes effort, of course, and Raine's not about to divert her attention until she's satisfied that enough has been done. The kind of magic you feel your way through, as if it's an extension of yourself. It hadn't really been that way until that time she had been possessed by Nala. Not that she denied the efficiency of it, but it pulled her away from herself.

Then she withdraws, the glow steadily fading until it's gone. She exhales softly, then raises her eyes back toward Sheena.] Thank you for staying still. How's that?

[corrinesbell]

[like hell she was going to move during that. Right now she still looks very surprised.]

I feel like I could move it if I wanted to. ...It doesn't really hurt.

[wise_maiden]

You probably could. I just wouldn't recommend it just yet--give it some time to rest. The natural recovery was sped up a lot more than what the body is used to, after all. And you still have other injuries that need tending.

[corrinesbell]

[a nod, but she's still staring at her arm like she expects...well. Like she expects all the pain to return. Did she know Raine could do that?]

Okay. ...Thanks.

[unfortunately, no amount of healing is going to relieve her of those dizzy spells. Raine may have to wait a moment or two for more conversation]

[wise_maiden]

[She'll just find another area that needs tending during the quiet. The more she takes care of now, the easier it will be for Sheena to talk later. She knew that her friend hadn't been kidnapped, so there had to be another reason for this injury.]

[corrinesbell]

[The easiest for her to find will probably be that sword cut on her shoulder. It's already had some healing, actually, but it still doesn't look good. And it might be a clue of a sort for Raine, if she takes off the bandages to get a look at it]

[wise_maiden]

[She's familiar with sword wounds, so that narrows things down a bit. As it is she intends to see to all of Sheena's injuries, as best as she can anyway. One thing that magic can't do is replenish the amount of blood lost, but she can at least close up the wound to the best of her ability.]

[corrinesbell]

[she's steady again by the time Raine is done there. The need to just sleep for hours on end is definitely in her near future.]

You're gonna tire yourself out.

[wise_maiden]

[She shakes her head.] Don't speak.

[corrinesbell]

[Sheena frowns. On the one hand, no, she doesn't really feel like expending the energy necessary to talk a whole lot, and maybe it's distracting while Raine is trying to concentrate. But that's why she waited until her friend was finished. On the other hand...well, she just doesn't like being told what to do sometimes. Especially when she's trying to seem less weak.

But she definitely doesn't have the strength to argue with Raine about it, so she just looks away again and nods]

[wise_maiden]

[The command is gentle, but it serves two purposes: to allow Sheena to continue to preserve that precious energy, and not have her waste it on telling Raine how to use her own energy. Besides, even if it is tiring, that will just allow for some time for her to sit and talk with Sheena later, when the latter can use that conserved energy to talk a little more about what happened. So it will work out, at least in Raine's mind anyway.

But for now, the other wounds need attention, and they certainly have a story to tell on their own. That connection with Nala tends to make her focus more on that anyway.] It won't be much longer.

[corrinesbell]

[She wants to say, that's because you're too good at this, or something equally half-compliment and half-complaint. Not speaking is looking better and better to her, though, especially once she realizes that Raine is probably going to have to deal with that injury in her side.

She'll have a lot of bandages to get through. It's a reasonably deep puncture, below her ribs and about an inch wide. It doesn't look pretty and definitely isn't something Sheena wants to comment on, particularly while Raine's trying to fix it, if she chooses to do so.]

[wise_maiden]

[The nature of that last injury will take a little more time than the broken arm, if only because the extent of the damages are unclear. Internal injuries aren't her speciality, and if it's gone in too deeply...

But the filial magic allows her to gauge--the deepness of it, the areas affected by it. Her eyes are closed as she uses the magic to sense, to see how much she can do. Enough to push and encourage the wound to close. More energy to go deeper, perhaps, but hopefully it wouldn't be as bad as it looked.

Only one way to find out, and for that, she will be silent a while longer as she works.]

[corrinesbell]

[Luckily for both of them, there's only minimal internal damage. If it had been worse, Sheena would be in a very different situation right now. And the wound has already been treated and cleaned, so she doesn't have to worry about that, either.

Sheena, also, keeps her eyes closed for this. It's something else she can feel, the way she felt her bones come back together, and again it seems the sensation should be painful, but for the most part it isn't. She's tense, which isn't helping the situation.

She's also starting to feel like she could be sick. The magic is going a long way in helping her, but her body has to contribute to the process too, and it's straining just a bit to also keep up with the energy it takes to keep her awake.]

[wise_maiden]

[It makes sense, since it's what supposed to be a natural process for the body being accelerated. It's probably worse because she's been laying there and likely hasn't eaten in hours, either. Not much energy to work with to begin with. Raine would tell Sheena to try to relax, but it's not something she can do at the moment. Hopefully the relaxing would come on her own.

She'll have time though, to rest it off properly. The magic at least, is gentle, soothing even as it withdraws once the wound is healed, cool when it has gone away. Raine needs a few moments, herself, but she opens her eyes to look over her friend, checking to see if there's anything else that needs tending.]