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"Nnnh"
Tessa groaned as she finally roused and stared up at a ceiling rather than the stone canopy of the cave she remembered having been in. Gods her whole body ached like she'd been caught stealing a cookie from Kaiju...then again other parts of her felt oddly light, floaty even.
The giant girl groaned again as she stirred and attempted to sit up by propping herself on her shoulders. In doing this Tessa noticed a distinct feeling of being off-balance as most of her weight seemed to lean to her right, confused Tessa looked down and stared at the empty space where she would normally see her right arm. The girl's breath caught in her throat as she stared for several agonizingly long and silent moments before reaching her shaky hand out and grasped at where she was used to seeing her limb.
Tessa's breath began to become rapid and shallow as she desperately fumbled in the empty air, hoping that she was hallucinating, then something caught her eye. At her left side, she spotted a mirror that showed her grim figure, a jagged scar running up her face and her hand feebly clutching at the nothing where her arm once was.
Hot tears stung the young faunus's eyes as she grit her teeth and snatched her pillow from behind her to fling it at the mirror with a grunt, an action that sent her leaning over the edge of the bed and tumbling to the floor. Aching anew, Tessa pushed herself to her knees and promptly fell over onto her left side. She looked down in horror at the second blank space where her left leg once was,and for a minute she watched her entire future fizzle away like the last glow of a dying candle. She was down an arm and a leg, not only could she not fight properly anymore but she was barely capable walking now, she had no more potential as a hunter, she could not even portray the look of a chieftain at home when she was old enough, gods above she couldn't even be useful to her team anymore like this...She couldn't even face her mother and father like this...
"Uuuu~" Tessa rolled to her rear and leaned against the wall as she gingerly touched her fingertips to the metal seal where her arm ended below her shoulder and then to the one that marked the end of her leg. Her hand began trembling uncontrollably before she slammed it hard against the wall and let out an anguished howl that ended with a series of loud sobs as she gripped her shoulder and let the tears run from her eyes and into her lap as her snowy hair pooled around her.

Tessa's eyes snapped toward the sound of someone approaching and lifted to meet the gaze of an older male before her. Something about his eyes made her shudder, it reminded her of her elder sister when staring down a grimm, cold...
The rhino girl wiped her eyes on the back of her hand and stared at the figure as he spoke. Despite the certainty of her future as a warrior being extinguished, Tessa's pride still surged forth under the scrutinous watch of this mysterious man. Her eyes narrowed as she grunted and pressed her palm on the floor between her thighs and lifted her weight slightly off the ground.
Tessa could feel the muscles in her arm and core tremble, weakened as they were from whatever anesthetic she'd been under for her arm and leg. With another grunt, Tessa brought her leg beneath her and attempted to put her weight on it only to tumble to the side with an audible "Oof". Her teeth grit together as she growled and pressed herself up with her arm and tightened her core while slowly raising to a kneeling position. While precariously tottering on her one knee the albino lashed out with her arm and caught the edge of her bed.
Her fierce red eyes never left the old man, as she slowly pulled herself to shakily stand and turn to sit on the bed. Cautiously she reached out and took a fruit from the plate next to her and took a bite.
"Why?" she finally spoke up after swallowing "Why save me? Why...do this?" She gestured to the remnants of her missing limbs "I'm no good to anybody anymore, can't fight, can't farm, if you did this out of the good of your heart then you probably should have found another charity case, mister." Tessa sighed as she placed the fruit back on the plate and placed her forehead on her palm "I can't even go home anymore...I don't want to be looked on with pity, I can't go back to anyone and just..." she sighed again "What good am I now?"

"You'll keep my family name from your lips if you're going to insult it!" Tessa's voice echoed off the pristine surfaces of what amounted to her current living space. Her row furrowed in anger as she glared at the man, very much disturbed by the almost indescribable series of sensations his gaze flooded her with, but her pride would not allow her to simply back down
"My family's name rests on the shoulders of my sisters and my mother and father!" the faunus barked "They would never abandon me, I would just stop being useful to them and I refuse to limp back home like a beaten dog to wallow in misery and gazes filled with pity!"
Tessa began to wheeze slightly, her anesthesia weakened lungs not yet ready for the work they had just performed. The girl placed her arm across her belly and coughed a few times before taking several deep breaths once the fit passed and she found the strength to reach out and grab a bread roll from the plate she took a large bite from.
"Stop speaking in riddles please" she grumbled around the semi-sweet wad of bread she chewed "If you've got an idea on how I can go back to being useful come out with it. I'll find a way to pay you if need be, I can probably earn any money it would cost to get back on my feet...but I'm good for any favor if that's what it takes..."

Tessa's eyes narrowed as the man spoke down on the value of family but held her tongue, occupying her mouth with inhaling every bit of food she could manage in her weakened state while he finished
"I want..." the giant girl began "I want to be of use to others, I will always cherish the connections I've made here as much as my clan and kin...but I want to return us to Atlas. We don't belong in Vale, many of our oldest still tell stories of our homeland and for that..."
The albino rested her hand on the seal that marked where her arm used to be "I want a new arm and leg so I can fight and continue growing stronger so I can lead my people and loved ones home. I want to destroy those that would bring harm to us, fight alongside my clan and the boy I...my closest friend once again and..." her eyes narrowed into a glare and her lip curled into a snarl "I want to bring ruin to those that allowed this to happen to me! The ones I called comrades that likely left me behind, scum I once looked upon as my own kin, that I would have gladly laid down my life for...Not once did I hear them cry out for me or feel their weapons stir that monster...I want to bring them to ruin, for them to see me before I punish them..."
Fierce red eyes locked onto cerulean orbs as the Faunus seethed
"My love, my strength, and my hate...That is what matters most...I assume you have a way to let me pursue them based on how you talk..."

Tessa's eyebrow raised quizzically as the man posed his question about crabs. She'd only seen them once before, at the beach for that school trip but she was fairly certain she'd cooked that one...
The faunus looked down at the medical tray and pondered what the man was getting at. She certainly hadn't ejected her limbs off, they'd been chewed off during the fight
"Your metaphors might need some work" Tessa muttered as she reached out and quickly tugged the pristine white sheet from the tray, tilting her head as she stared down at the contents.

Tessa's eyes widened at the sight of the artificial limbs on the tray. Her alabaster fingertips traced gently across the gold inlays that decorated the surface of the arm while she silently mouthed something that, to those that could read lips, didn't seem to be in English.
At the request, she pulled her sleeve up to the shoulder of her missing arm and nodded.
"I've been bitten, scratched, stabbed, electrocuted and set on fire in this past year alone. This won't be anything significant...I just hope these can match my strength a little..."

Tessa grit her teeth against the sharp pain of her nerves reconnecting to something physical again. It wasn't exactly an odd sensation, having limbs again, just somewhat...floaty seemed to be the best way to describe it. Like something about the weight felt off or maybe it was how smooth they felt, like something truly artificial and not with the weight and imperfections of flesh and blood. Strangely she got the feeling she would miss the occasional clicking sensation of her hand, something she'd gotten when breaking several bones in a nasty fight with an ursa.
The faunus got to her feet, unsteady but confident, flexing her core to keep her balance. Her gait was far from graceful as she kept pace with the older man, and more than once she had to catch herself on the wall to prevent herself from falling.
"How nice" she mumbled at the remark that she reminded the man of a family member, though she perked up at the mention of training. She was quite excited to get used to her new limbs, she couldnt exactly be useful tottering around like a baby deer.
"If I'm going to train" she said, sipping the glass he'd given her "Then I'm going to need some new clothes" she paused a moment as she rolled a lock of her hair between the fingers of her new hand "...And do you know where I could get some hair dye?"