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122. Circumstances

[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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[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.

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.

[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]

[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.]

[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]

[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.]

[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.

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

[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]

[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.

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

[after that much, Sheena's looking pretty pale. She doesn't recall that lying down and just being healed took so much out of her before.

There is one more thing Raine might consider serious enough, barring the other sword cuts, but she may also want to leave it alone in favor of keeping Sheena definitively in bed for a few days more. She was limping around that house; one agile misstep during the fight set the muscles in the back of her thigh on fire, and sent her knee in a direction it really shouldn't have gone. It's painful and bothersome, but it won't kill her if it's left to heal all by itself, or at least left alone until she's had time to get some strength back.

It's up to Raine, though. At this point Sheena can't and won't object to whatever she wants to do. She tries to open her eyes again and immediately, weakly brings her good hand up to her head.]

[She's not going to ignore the injury. She wouldn't be much of a healer if she did that. At the very least, she'd have backup when it came to making sure that Sheena didn't exert herself during the next week.]

... Just try to relax, Sheena. You need the rest.

[Raine doesn't have to worry about keeping her quiet for now, at least. She feels like any attempt to talk will end in that half-bottle of water all over the place.

But she wants to tell her not to leave, if she does fall asleep. Really wants to tell her what happened, even though just a few minutes ago she was trying to come up with a way to get out of telling her.

If Raine waits just a few minutes before using magic on that last injury - if magic is what she intends to do - Sheena will bounce back, just enough.]

[Like it or not, Raine does need to take a small break herself, from all that casting. After debating it for a moment, she moves to sit back down in the chair again.]

[and she does slowly relax, some of the color coming back to her face (it wasn't all there to begin with, after losing so much blood) and her breathing evening out again.

It doesn't hurt. Almost nothing hurts, not the things that had before Raine arrived. In trying to rest and think of nothing, Sheena is very slow to realize this fact, but it's there.

When she feels like she can open her eyes again without seeing the world as a swirling blur, she does, cautiously. And it works, as long as she doesn't try too hard to focus. After a moment or two she will be looking for that bottle of water, and hoping Raine can intuit this somehow.]

[That bottle of water at least should be in Sheena's line of vision, so when her gaze reaches it, Raine rises once more to move to assist her with it.]

[she doesn't have the strength to hold it on her own this time, for sure, nor is she willing to risk a stern look for a verbalized thanks. So once she's had some more of the water, she just nods gratefully]

... You're welcome. Just take it easy, for now. [She pulls the covers back up on Sheena so she can get some warmth back.] I'm not going anywhere just yet.

[Her eyes are already closing again. She may take a cat-nap of sorts, no longer than half an hour or so. Because hearing that Raine wasn't going anywhere was good enough.]

[She'll even hum something softly to help her along, at first.

It just seems appropriate.]

[in her half-sleep, the moments before she's dead to the world again, her arm wraps around that stuffed toy that's been sitting there next to her since Raine showed up.

And she doesn't even mind. Whether it's childish or strange or embarrassing is one of the farthest things from her thoughts.

Then there are no thoughts for another half hour. When she wakes again it's with a quiet start, like she might have heard a noise]

What...?

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