Witch & Doctor

Alaine Winters · 01-18-2011, 10:09 AM

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Alaine was teetering on the verge of a dangerous emotion herself. She had acted kindly enough, but within the dainty-looking woman was a surprisingly cold streak; she had faced many things in her life, and it would be unwise to consider her as an easy target. Dainty hands, so delicate and perfectly tailored to her modest profession, had once been known to rip the throat right out of a living man. So help her, if this Kemo threatened the lives of her soon-to-be-happiness...

But the dark spiral was stifled by a sudden and unexpected convulsion. The ivory male had frozen mid-speech, and already the Apothecary's dedicated mind was gauging this newest symptom, fitting it neatly in with all the rest. A theory was conjuring slowly within the collie's mind, as to the mysterious case of Kemo the Blind, but in her currently danger-fraught state, she would not be willing to disclose.

Leave them. The thought came quickly, and the cream woman stilled, even as her emerald eyes played over the touching scene that unraveled before her. Leave them - Find Vigilante, have him send some brawn to chase them off. In truth, the thought was not as cruelly uncalled for as it had seemed - These two strangers had broken a largely-kept taboo, in showing such feckless aggression on land that was not of their blood. And worse, that the recipient be a healer; a pregnant healer. In her homeland, such disrespect would have been rewarded with fearsome reprieve. She would have been well within her moral rights to desert them here.

In the end, it was Ralla's plaintive tone that made up her mind. The woman clearly cared deeply for her companion. Perhaps they were a mated pair. It would be unwise to offend a Shaman by leaving her mate to suffer, and though she lacked a distinct belief in all things otherworldly, Alaine had a respectable fear for those who were deemed to wield such unnatural power. With a small growl that was partial frustration, and partial wariness, the healer woman finally succumbed to her base instinct, and moved forward to kneel beside the prone form of the fallen wolf. One ivory hand was held up to Ralla, so the woman would not interrupt. Then, with much caution, she prized open Kemo's jaws, and pulled his tongue out. If indeed he had fallen temporarily unconscious, it would not do for him to choke on his own flaccid tongue, as some prone figure had known to do. Then, with quick but assured movements, she peeled back the male's eyelid to observe the roundness of her pupil, muttered some foreign words under her breath, and rested on gentle palm on his ribcage. It moved up and down, up and down; Kemo was alive, and not having some sort of spasm. As to whether he had feinted, or was comatose - Only time would tell.

"He lives and breaths, Seer." Her voice, though still frosty, was not as clipped as before. This drama was tiring her, and the rush of adrenaline had left her feeling weak.

The two women were now seated. Some of her crankiness was relieved when Ralla once more began to speak - Not in a voice that pleaded partition for the rudeness of her shocked friend, but instead in the tone of those who knew how to see more than just this mortal plane. Libra. She found she liked the sound of such a 'sign', and listened further, inclining her head to show that the other had permission to continue. Then, amazing! Such things came from the ivory wolfess' maw that Alaine knew, in her heart, to be true. What single words she spoke had come to pass, their relevance heeded in turn by the now avidly listening Apothecary. And a question: For a moment, her heart froze, and within her unfurled the last tendrils of fear. There was no point in lying now. "Yes," And, unwary of the warning withheld in the other female's gaze, a sudden and warm smile suddenly stretched about her face. Oh, euphoria! Finally, she had told someone, told someone of the miracle happening within the body she had once assumed barren! "I am, Ralla. Yes."

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