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Dec 23, 2021 07:53PM
"There they are." Teddy said as they approached Ryenna and Ian, who were both tending to Tyler.
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Veronica almost cried out in relief. Tyler looked so much better. They walked over.
"We got a little beat up on the way, but, we killed the werewolfs." Teddy declared. Then he grimaced, his back was killing him, "I could use some help with my back."
Veronica finally collapsed from exhaustion.
Teddy looked from Veronica to the others, "I'll explain later."
She sat near Tyler. "I think the antidote is almost finished."
Teddy smiled at Veronica, he was glad she was feeling better. He sat up against the wall but quickly moved away because it hurt his back.
((We need Carsie!))
Veronica turned to Ryenna. "Please help Teddy, the werewolf clawed up his back."
((it should be a requirement))
Veronica winced. "When we were fighting the first werewolf it attacked me and I got contaminated. I starts to become a werewolf, so Teddy made me the only known antidote. It's working, but it has extremely painful side effects. I'm hoping I won't be hot by the really bad one. Only a few people get it when they take the antidote." Veronica stood and glanced at Tyler. "He looks so much better. I'm so glad that-" she dropped to the ground clutching her stomach and screamed in agony.
Veronica gasps and tries very hard to talk. "S-silv-ver, a-and an he-erbal conc-oction." Veronica starts to cry. "It's helping me, just let it do its work. It has to get w-worse before it gets better." She falters at the word worse. " it's killing the werewolf inside me, silver is the only thing they are allergic to." Veronica screams again.
Veronica took the small packet and ate the contents. It helped but only slightly. She sat down against the wall and tried not to cry. "I really hate what I do" she whispered. "It's so dangerous, but I like the sense of danger. I have to protect the people I love, but I hate doing it." She rubbed her stomach .
She looked over at poor Teddy and his stiches up back. "I should have been able to keep him from being hurt. I should have made sure Tyler wasn't in danger." Her head slumped back and she tried to breath steadily. " why is it so hard to keep those you love out of danger?"
((I wonder what Ian must be thinking))
Veronica smiled weakly. "Thanks Ian. I think most of us need to be reminded sometimes that we can't do everything, we just have to do the best we can." She coughed a huge racking cough that was dry and ugly. "Now I'm in stage two. Stage one is all pain as the silver fights the werewolf, stage two is your body trying to expel the werewolf." As she said this she coughed again.
Tyler started to wake up. Veronica crawled over to him. "Tyler?" "I'm here, what happened?" Veronica hugged him. "You were attacked by the werewolf and Ryenna had to fix you up."
Veronica wondered where Ian was going and why, but she had more important things to worry about. Tyler very slowly sat up and grunted in pain. "You don't look so good V, what happened to you?"she showed him the scratch on her face and he pieced it together. "No" he whispered. "I'm fine now, Teddy mixed the antidote and I'm already in stage two." She coughed again.
Veronica released Tyler. "I'll be fine, I might not even have to go through step three. You know some people skip it." She suddenly looked very green. "An shoot" she muttered. "Anybody have a bucket they don't !and getting dirty?"
* mind
Kilied was actually going to throw up. There was too much blood in one place, and it was making him think of that awful day. Over and over again.
A phantom headache pounded and he could see the fuzzy memory.
Balorico sent a jolt of energy through the mind link and Kilied jumped, flashing back to reality.
Nausea roiled in his stomach.
Why?
"Glad to see you're awake," Ryenna said to Tyler. "I almost thought I wasn't going to be able to work my magic."
She glanced at Kilied, her eyes fraught with meaning. Kilied cocked his head and squinted.
Definitely not from Arctashia.
Anyone who called elven powers "magic" were either extremely uneducated, extremely stupid, or from a different world.
As Ryenna was clearly not either of the first two, she'd never been to Arctashia.
He smirked, shook his head, and looked away.
Veronica looked like she was going to be sick.
Kilied sighed.
He was too.
What a merry group they made.
((we just love making our characters suffer))
Veronica swallowed a few times and looked less green. "I wonder what happened to the rest of us. I guess they're just wondering around. At least the werewolves are dead." She coughed again.
"Does anyone else feel like there's not enough oxygen in here?" She stared breathing heavily. "Oh man, I think I'm seeing spots." She tried to stand but fell dizzily to the ground. "I'm going into the third and final stage." Tyler looked upset at this news. "You'll be fine" he whispered reassuringly.
"I wonder what happened to the rest of us. I guess they're just wondering around. At least the werewolves are dead," Veronica heaved between coughs.Kilied shrugged. "I wasn't paying attention. I'm going to leave before your greenness makes me sick," he added.
He stood and walked away from the group, trying to block out the scent of blood and sweat and pain.
It didn't work.
He was standing in the middle of the courtyard, watching as Halaron desperately froze the air around the mortal wound. There weren't enough of him. People were dying and screaming and bleeding. Kilied was frozen, about to faint from the smell of blood.
Who knew a Fringe tear could be this caustic.
But it was. The half of the people not bleeding out were poisoned, vomiting everywhere, screaming in pain, unconscious.
200 people died. And Kilied did nothing. And it was all his fault.
Kilied pulled up short, his insides roiling. The flashback faded, but the image was burned once again irreparably into his mind's eye, and he pitched forward, vomiting.
Balorico appeared beside him.
"Happens too often, Comrade."
Yeah. It does.
Kilied felt hopelessness weigh in the pit of his stomach, mixing perfectly with the vomit and sickness and nausea.
He hated his life.
((Wow. I wasn't expecting that to happen just then...))
((Lol see now??? Yes. You do. Most definitely. ALSO I WANT TO READ YOUR BOOK SOOO BAD I LOVE YOUR CHARACTERS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! And your writing is realllllly good.))
Carsie Rose wrote: "((lol I get that. Ian just does what he wants and doesn't listen to me. Or does what he doesn't want and still avoids listening to me.Also, poor Killied))"
((LOL ALL OF MY CHARACTERS IN A HAPPY LITTLE NUTSHELL THOUGH))
((You're welcome!!! You're writing does the polar opposite of suck, it is amazing, I love it, I would read everything you wrote if you would let me lol. XD And thank you very much! That means a lot to me!!!! And actually, if you want, I'll PM you the link to my very unfinished disastrous draft if you want to alpha read for me. XD))
((what do you guys think, should I write down this thread into book form? And then make a document to share with everyone? I though it would be cool...))
((okay!!! I'll do that sometime!))
Tears slipped down Penelope’s face as she began to tell Inara what happened, “There was this girl. She pulled me into this room and cut me with a knife. I threw my knives, but she caught both of them. I tried my arrows, but I couldn’t kill her. Finally, I did.” She began shaking and she cried some more.
“It’s ok! Did she say who she was?”
Penelope shook her head, “She died before she could answer.”
Veronica weakly laid her head back. "I'll be fine" she said to Tyler. "The third stage is last one." He still looked worried. " you know what happened during it." "I can handle it."
* Happens
((where did everybody go? I'm all alone again. How does the song that Donkey songs in Shrek go? I'm all alone there's no one here beside me. My problems have all ??? There's no one here to right me! But you gotta have friends!))
((sry i was gone for so long lol))Teddy's back was feeling a bit better now that it was stitched up and he had some pain killers. He had a new type of pain now. Guilt.
He glanced at Veronica, who was now happy with Tyler, but in pain because of the silver antidote that he'd made.
"I'm so sorry." he whispered, even though he thought no one had heard it.
Veronica looked up. "None of this is your fault Teddy. I g knew the antidote would be painful and I took it anyway. I am so indebted to you for making it for me. Without it I would be a werewolf now."
Teddy smiled at Veronica, that had made in feel a little better. He still felt responsible for all that had happened. "I'm glad you're okay," he said to her.
She smiled. "I'm feeling much better now." Veronica stood up and stretched, then she clutched her head. "Dizzy, got up to fast, oh I'm dizzy." She sat down again. "Maybe I'll rest a little longer."
*Inara crouched next to the dead girl.*“Well, let’s see what she looks like.”
*She uses her bow to push the girl over on her back. And study’s her face. What she see surprises her!*
“Oh. My. This is an Elf. And She’s wearing the clothes of my tribe Linith. But I don’t recognize her. Why is she here?! Why is one of my own people here!?”
*she slowly sinks to the ground. Stunned at this discovery.*
Book wrote: "She smiled. "I'm feeling much better now." Veronica stood up and stretched, then she clutched her head. "Dizzy, got up to fast, oh I'm dizzy." She sat down again. "Maybe I'll rest a little longer.""Teddy rested as well. He'd been through a lot in the past few hours, too much. He leaned against the wall and shut his eyes, hoping for a peaceful sleep.
He got everything but that. His sleep was filled with nightmares. Werewolves, blood, magic. He woke up to beads of sweat on his forehead.
He reached back and felt the stitches on his back and winced.
"What are we going to do now?" he said in a quiet voice. "We didn't just come here to get injured and watch each other suffer, what was the purpose of this?"
Penelope looks at Inara, “Hey. It’s ok. We’ll figure this out.” Meanwhile, she pulled out a bandaid and put it on her cut.
Penelope sighed, “I wish there was a way to communicate with everyone. Some kind of device or something. Or even a call.” She shrugged
“Yeah, that would be nice! Do you think we should try and go find them?”
“I think so. Then we can actually try and make a plan, since we kinda know the space.” Penelope looked back down at the body, “Should we just leave her?”
“Ummm……..maybe we should take her, that way, the other people can see what she looks like. What do you think?”
Penelope nods, “Sure. Maybe they’ll have an idea of who she is.” She hoists the girl into her back and groans, “My word, she’s heavy”.
Kilied slumped against the wall, exhausted. This was a literal nightmare.He shivered at the memories of blood and death and sorrow.
It was his fault.
It had all been his fault.
All of it.
