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 Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 3:54 pm
"I have a way to fix this I think."
He'd been thinking and thinking on it. he didn't want to fight her about it, or have her panic and freak out. he walked over, gently moving Zahara off Piper, and took a closer look at her neck. Yes, those burns and blisters definately ment it had to come off.
"It has to come off your neck. but that doesn't mean it has to stay off you. that is of course, if you'd be willing to wear it perhaps someplace else. might make a nice tiara."
A slight grin.
"Or once it's off, we can use the leash to tighen it down into a bracelet or you could wear it around your thigh like a garter. but it can't stay where it is with your injury. it's too dangerous, Chev'."
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:12 pm
"You all just don't understand..." Piper knew she had lost. Onyx, Zahara, Kieran, and even Malik. And if she didn't let it happen, they would force it to happen. Damn that human...damn him to the deepest circle of hell. And what didn't they understand? It wasn't just having the collar on, it was also having it around her neck that was so important. For a moment she turned her eyes down from his own, a subtle sign of her surrender. "Fine...take it off..." An uncomfortable cold feeling seemed to rise up from somewhere inside. No, she'd be okay...Malik would be there...she'd get it back...nothing was going to change just because it was gone for a while...right?
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:22 pm
"I'll make it up to you, promise. and it will never be out of your sight. and yes, I do understand. But there's nothing to be done, we have to take care of those injuries."
A look over at Kieran.
"Get Broog, if you would. he'll be able to get it off, and we'll get her taken care of first. the second she's able to put it back on it will be on."
back to Piper.
"if they can do something to let you wear it after a treatment, I'll have it put right back around your neck. and Right Hand is damned lucky he was soulless. or I'd have his soul right now and you coudl do anything you wanted to it. we'll have to suffice that h probably got eaten by his own creations and is spread out as fertilizer over a thousand different areas."
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 4:36 pm
Kieran gave a nod and scooped up Raziel, shouldering the familiar as he gave Piper an affectionate run of his fingers through her hair, despite it being a blood soaked mess, and headed off downstairs to go fetch Broog, prepared with a response to a question he would no doubt get over it.
She still didn't look at any of them a moment, busy staring at her hands for the time being. Still processing this all in her head. Did it make her feel better that he said he understood, or that he said that human had got his just desserts. To her he didn't get even half of what Piper wanted to pur him through and she wasn't the vindictive one. Piper perhaps looked more fragile in this one moment than she had looked in a long time, if ever. Especially in front of Malik. "I trust you..." That was all she could say to perhaps make things better, the words implying so much more than thier base meanings.
Of course Kieran was quick with anything he did and was back with Broog quickly enough. Though from the feelings that were rolling off of Piper, he knew that she thought it was all too soon.
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 5:29 pm
Zahara didn't go far at all, merely sat down beside her but then was at a loss of what to do. How was she going to comfort her friend when she knew nothing about comfort? Piper didn't seem to want to be touched right now and Zahara really was at a loss. She finally settled for patting her back lightly, awkwardly, but it was the best she could do. "You could put something lighter in its place," she said examining Piper's neck. "Like your bandanna or something like that. As long as its light and nonabrasive." After all she was going to put something over it to keep it contained and attempt to speed up the healing process.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:28 pm
Broog came upstairs, not a happy ogre. carrying his chest like it was a lunchbox, and hammer over his shoulder, glaring and drooling at nothing in particular. he dropped the chest down, and first thing he did was grab Malik's burnt and electrified hand and squeezed, hard.
"Youz lefts her ALONEZ! and yous sees what happenz. why you leave herz alones!?"
blood was trickling between Broog bigger fingers, and it put malik down on teh floor easily enough.
"Broog..you don't let me go right now..and I'm taking all your shinies away."
And broog went from vicious brute to beaten puppy, and let go, opening his chest ad getting his tools and then sitting on it. lets see Malik try to get it now.
"Do wez hafta takes it off?"
"Look for yourself."
So broog leaned over, making sure he was sitting on his shinies, and took a look, frowned, and snorted.
"It like da one master guy that had da burnt lady."
"Yes. and remember, he didn't want her collar off, and what happened?"
"Da lady gots da green and ungly coolered stuffz, and she go byebye."
"That's right. and you don't want Mistress to go byebye, right?"
Broog shook his big head.
"Then we need to take it off her neck."
Broog got his tools, nad was gentle, very, very, gentle, and when it came off he placed it firmly in Piper's hands.
"Dat not gon anyplacez."
Of course broog saw and smelled blood in her hair, and before anybody coudl say or do much about it, he picked her up, carried her upstiars to a bathroom, and barked at those slave to get her a bath. putting Piper in the bathroom, shutting the door, adn sitting in front of it.
Malik shook his head and went up after them, damn that ogre...and when broog sat down, kicked him in teh shin. wouldn't hurt, but get his attention.
"You let her out of there right now, Broog."
"Da Mistrezz is icky wit blod. youz not touchin da mistrez till she's cleanz like she likes ta be."
"You left your shinies downstairs."
"Youz takes dem, youz answers to da mistrez. she likes broog!"
Big toothy grin. ha! take that!
Malik groaned, and ran his hand over his face, before motioning to one of the slaves cleaning up the rooms.
"Get Keely, tell her to find Piper's personal cleric. Piper has some injuries that Zahara's going to look at, but I'd like someone else there as well if nothign else they can learn something about electrical burns."
and back to glaring at Broog.
"And you are not so well favored as to not be replaced."
Broog just glared right back at him.
"She's can replaze yous too!"
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:52 pm
Of course Zahara immediately blinked when Piper was swept up and carried off and she glanced at the shinies still left behind and attempted to lift the chest but couldn't so she levitated it, walking upstairs. It was kind of cute the way Broog was so protective of Piper and Zahara cleared her throat and nodded to his shinies. "Here you go Broog, wouldn't want Malik taking these from you." She leaned against the wall and watched them for a moment, then went and grabbed some more clothes of Piper's coming back. "Broog, can you move so I can get inside? I won't let Malik in, I promise but Piper's going ot need help. She's not really up to doing anything right now."
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 6:59 pm
Kieran was a bit taken aback a moment at this all. Well...that was...he didn't know what that was. But it was intriguing. Seeing as Malik got the blame for Piper's injury. Though he was more concentrated on the bond filtered feelings were going on. Torrent was a good way to describe it. Though despite the turmoil inside, she was putting on a rather good show of being tough on the outside. She was a trooper. Then a chuckle as Broog too matters into his own hand, and then Malik and Zahara followed. A look to Raziel. "Well...we should go get ourselves cleaned up too, shouldn't we?" Indeed.
Normally, she would of chastised Broog when he took action against Malik but she could only concentrate on but so much right now. And her mind was on this collar business. And sounds were all to loud in her ears at the motions of Broog unlocking that collar and pulling it off, gentle as he may be, before placing it in her hands...to which she graped on it so hard her nuckles turned white. Her first instinct was to want to wrap a hand around her neck, but knew that wouldn't be a good idea. Though her posture had immediately stiffened once it was off. Though then she was more or less carted upstairs and more or less...locked...in a bathroom. Of courswe the two arguing was easily heard. A look at the slave in there with her, though she didn't say anything as the girl more or less followed Broog's orders, drawing the bath water. Piper was being stoic at the moment, and not really caring at the happenings. Though yes, getting clean would be nice.
The slave had gone off at Malik's barking, in no mindset to anger him when it came to Piper. They knew better than that. Of course fetching Keely was a matter of visiting the stable to get her and she took over from there. A trip downstairs for Keely to fetch the preferred cleric, who was brought upstairs in accompaniment to Keely. What was with the around the bathroom hallway loitering?
The cleric? She wasn't too happy. Why? Because Piper well...had an aversion to thier kind. Touching was a no no and the rumors about what happened were horrible. Though the fact that she wasn't as bad as she used to be were comforting, and she merely looked at Zahara a moment.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:10 pm
Broog sat like a giant stone boulder in teh way of that door. when the cleric came he stood up, moved forward, pushed the cleric in, shoved Zahara in with clothing, and shut the door, sitting back down in front of it.
Malik only shook his head and looked at Kieran.
"If you'd like to get showered and cleaned up, you'll have to find a different bathroom. there should be one by your prefered room. I'll stay here with the stupid brute and make sure that he moves to let her out and that everything goes alright."
The slave drew a bath, and undressed Piper, slowly, as not to alarm her, and folded all clothes neatly in a pile by her. then led her into the bath, and started to bath her, nodding to the two healers when they were shoved in. she didn't speak, didn't have to. she knew by the clothing what they were. she was extra careful washing Piper's hair, and actually emptied and refilled the bath when it got too much blood in it to make sure she had clean water.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:52 pm
She was unceremoniously shoved in and she glared at the door for a moment. "Not even a thank you.." but she glanced at the cleric briefly then turned her attention to the slave girl who was still bathing Piper. She waited rather impatiently for her to finish, then showed her the door. "Thank you but your services are no longer required. She knew her friend well enough to know that something was really wrong if she was allowing someone else to bathe her. She let Piper soak for a few minutes, then held out a towel for her to dry herself off. "Alright, here's your clothes, we'll take care of that just as soon as you are finished Piper."
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Picking Up Stars Vice Captain
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Fractured Moonlight Captain
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 8:58 pm
Kieran nodded, and threw in a little humor to the situation. "Indeed. Women, always hoarding the bathrooms eh?" A little chuckle as he looked to Malik as any father might look at his own child, yet at the same time looked at him as his peer. Son in law, yet his own age. "But rather than idly wait for her, you might as well get that hand of yours patched up while you wait." He personally was going to get cleaned up then get his own injuries looked over.
Normally, she would of protested. But she was preoccupied with holding onto her collar and with a general sense of certain loss. She was still processing after all. Being assulted by things, almost raped, shocked, and then her collar taken off...it was a stressful day. A little pampering couldn't hurt thought, right? Though a look over from where she sat neck deep in water to Zahara and a cleric. "I'm quite the spot of attention today, aren't I?" Though after a few minutes of soaking she took the towel offered and dragged herself off, drying off and pulling on clothes, all but slowly, seeing as she was sore. Relatively unharmed except for some bruises and scraps, and of course her neck. Though yes she was taking a slow time to towel off her hair, after all...how long had it been since her neck was really abled to be touched. Even Malik more or less worked around it.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:28 pm
Zahara waited for Piper to finish dressing and nodded, "Yes, just about getting killed allows you to be pampered when you're safe again." She walked forward and studied Piper's neck, the angry burns and bruising of the reddened skin making her wince, wondering just how it had happened. It was strange seeing her without her collar in its normal place. She gently touched a finger to it, trying to assess just how dead the skin was and then nibbled on her lip. "We have two choices. One, I can go get my bag and take care of you in here, or two, you can get out of this bathroom and come with me and we can do it in my room. Up to you Piper." she wasn't about to let that other girl touch her and if she had her way, she'd keep her locked in the bathroom.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:39 pm
The look of strangeness that Zahara gave at her lack of a collar, Piper was perhaps feeling ten times stranger. She felt more danger of being strangled with it on than it actually being where it belonged. A light cringe at her touching, all too painfullay aware. Not to mention that hot water irritated burns anyway. "Just go get your bag. I'd rather do it in here." Because she didn't want to have to go around anybody else right now. If she had her way, she'd lock herself in a room by herself, though she knew Malik would never allow that.
The cleric girl that was in there with them was merely taking a bystander view. If anything she could be observant to it all, if not asked to help. And she was perfectly fine with that if she did say so herself.
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:48 pm
Zahara nodded understandingly and walked to the door, unlocking it and opening it, sidestepping quickly in case the ogre was using it as a backrest and she slipped out then walked down the hall and quickly grabbed her medicine bag. Ignoring Malik and Broog, she said not a word, merely jerked her head to move Broog back out of th way and came back in the bathroom, setting the bag down. "Have a seat Piper, it'll be more comfortable for you. This is going to hurt a little bit but in the end it will feel better. I promise." She waited for Piper to do as she'd asked and kneeled down, reaching for her bag and handing her a vial. "Drink this, it will numb the pain a bit." Then she grabbed a jar and opened it, dipping her fingers in lightly. The scent of aloe and eucalyptus rent the air and she gently applied a thin coat to Piper's neck. Gauze was then wrapped around her neck and laid tightly against the wound to protect it, secured with a bit of adhesive. She nodded lightly and stepped back. "We'll repeat this twice a day for a few days and see if it gets any better. Alright?"
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Posted: Sat May 13, 2006 9:59 pm
Taking a seat, she merely sighed lightly as she let her shouders dropped from thier slightly overly state so Zahra could get where she needed better, after all, when you had a burn that encircled your neck, it was best to be as compliant as possible to get it quickly over with. Though the handed over vial was set on the sink, left alone. "I can't handle some ingrediants in Underdark concoctions." If she didn't know what was in it, it was best not to take it. Her and Malik more or less had a list of things she was tolerable to somewhere. Probably in a bag from wanderlust days. Oh great now she was thinking about that little fetility potion talk. "I'll be fine." Thus she only cringed, biting her lip with tears pricking at her eyes, though they didn't fall at pain as Zahara went to work. At least the woman worked fast. "What ever you think is best." Picking up the vial, she handed it back to Zahara. "You don't want to waste this."
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