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]

We can try a little bit, in the bottle. Then I'll take care of your wounds.

[corrinesbell]

[a few moments' quiet, then a nod]

Yeah. Okay.

[and her good hand comes up carefully to rest on top of the head of that stuffed toy]

[wise_maiden]

[And a small bottle of water with a straw will be gotten, just like the last time. The injury might not allow her to have solids very well, but water is water. She can't afford to be dehydrated on top of everything else.

Her next plan is to look at that arm of hers. But first, she'll wait to see how Sheena receives the drink.] Here you go.

[corrinesbell]

[she instinctively tries to sit up. That goes about as well as expected, and she grimaces and remains lying down.]

Could you help?

[wise_maiden]

[She had already been moving over to adjust the bed a little better to bring her to a semi-reclining position, then gets a few pillows to help her sit up better.]

[corrinesbell]

[ooh. Sitting up makes her dizzy]

Thanks.

[Raine will probably have to handle the bottle too, but Sheena is at least giving it a try, carefully reaching her good hand for it]

[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.