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 Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:52 pm
Learith stops dead in his tracks. Suddenly the complexities of the situation dawn on him. He felt like a fool for not believing Mearia before she had left for the birthing compound. She'd given him plenty of indication that she was different than the other women here, starting with the fact that she actually told him that it was his baby. He had made so many excuses that now did not seem to hold water. He had told himself that she was just so excited about her first baby, that she had to tell as many people as she could.
He didn't know what to think now.
"I will keep an eye on... on her," he said. Though he knew the child was a boy now, if he could keep saying her, he might be able to keep the truth closer to his heart-- and he might be able to keep the room from spinning. "Whatever else you need me to do. Whatever else. Just tell me." That was what a slave should say.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:08 am
"By morning, you will be very busy. Watch the baby till then, and get some rest as well. Morning will be very long for you two." Minlee just continues packing stuff, like food, clothing, towels. She even places a torch and a few flint stones as well as some tender. She wanted to give her sister as much advantage as she could. If she managed to get out of the city, she would need all this stuff.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:30 am
Learith nodded solemnly, hovering over the child without picking it up. It was so precious, so little, that he could hardly imagine picking it up. He looked back to Minlee several times as he thought about it. She seemed to be packing, and he wished that he could help with that too.
Then the baby started fussing. Learith sat on the couch next to the babe and very carefully cradled him up into his lap. The baby continued to cry. "Is she hungry?" he asked after checking to see if she were wet. "Minlee?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:46 am
"The child may be. He shouldn't even be out of the birthing center yet." Minlee just couldn't call the child a him. It was too much to take at the moment. "You may need to wake up Minlee, for she will know what do do. I have never raised any children." She finishes the packing. She has a small pack, filled with food, water, ointments and bandages. She now goes to bundle a blanket up for the trip. They would need to stay warm in the night time air.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:34 pm
"Mearia seemed very tired. Do you have any goat's milk?" he hazarded. She had just admited that she had never cared for a child. Neither had he, but he could use his imagination. Although for all he knew, goat's milk would actually hurt the babe. "None of us have experience in this."
His boy looked too tiny to be out of the safe birthing center. But Laerith knew that once he had been as such, and later they had taken him to training, something he would rather keep his kid away from now that there seemed any hope of that. Laerith was used to thinking like a defeatist.
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 9:51 pm
"Just wake her gently. She will know what she must do. She has rested for as long as I dare to let her. You two must leave at once. I don't think you understand what dangers you are in just by staying here." Minlee walks in with the last of the previsions. She makes two bags, one big one for him, and a much smaller one for Mearia. Mearia was going to carry all the lighter stuff, but it was only the things she couldn't fit into the bigger bag.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:49 pm
"But where could we possibly be going?" he asked, concerned for once in his life by his lack of power to affect any thing. He dared not suggest out of the country before his mistress did. He stood up, trying to get the baby to stop fussing.
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Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:20 pm
"Anywhere but here. This city will not be safe for my sister." She pointed out the fact, which she thought was as plain as day. "Are you going to get her up, or not."
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:35 pm
Shamed, Learith hunched and ducked his head as he exited the room and entered Mearia's. The baby was mumbling more quietly now, though Learith had hoped that its crys would do his job for him. He didn't want Mearia to be upset for waking her, as she very well should be, as tired as she looked.
Learith knocked on the inside of the door. "Lady Minlee wishes you awoken."
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:25 am
Mearia turned in the bed, rolling over so as to be facing the door. She was still tired, but ready to move once again. "It is alright, my love. How is our child?" She still lays in the bed, resting as much as she can before they have to leave. The sun is just starting to raise outside, and dawn approaches.
A few moments later, Minlee walks into the room. "She is still in bed? I told you to get her up." She blasts Learith in her aggravation. "Mearia, you have to get up. You need to leave soon, or they will catch you right here, in bed." She tries to motivate her sister into moving sooner.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:20 am
Learith hunches over as if to protect himself from the heat of her scorn. "I am ready for Lady Mearia to be ready," he half mumbled as he ducked out of the room. Let the women fight it out.
Learith went to check on the packing that Minlee had done, since she had also packed for him. Also, if he were to take care of the baby, he would have to know where the baby's stuff was.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:29 pm
Learith hears a few words from the other room, but nothing overly harsh. After a few moments, he sees Mearia and Minlee walk out of the room together.
"Feed your child before you go. You wont have much time to do that once you start to move."
"Alright." Mearia says, gently taking the child from Learith's arms. She walks back into the other room, for her privacy as she feed the baby.
"Alright. You just standing there? Here, put this and this on. Your job is to carry these. Mearia will be tired enough, and will have the child to worry about." She points to the largest pack, fitting the blankets onto a top loop of his gear.
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School Of Dedicated RPers Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 9:58 pm
Learith obeys without complaint, and prepares to follow Mearia out into the wide world. Well, the wide country of Feretris at least. At this point he's still not sure where he stands in all this, where Mearia stands in relation to Feretris and its customs. Perhaps he never will be completely sure of these things. For now all he can do is follow the leader.
(do you want them to go ahead and reach the other compound, or chat some...or what? smile )
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