New Limbs, New Life

Hotaru · 08-06-2012, 12:27 PM

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Hotaru stood inside her bedroom, her staff laying unused against the wall while the scent of birth still permitted the air. The exhausted mother stood leaning against a wooded crib, one hand dangling into the structure to gently caress her small charges. Two tiny puppies lay asleep and warm inside their odd bed, and although Hotaru couldn't see them, she knew they were beautiful. Aiden and Aysun were Hotaru's own private miracle. She had never imagined that she could be a mother, and the reality was both wondrous and terrifying.

Fawkes and Kelia had gone off hunting earlier in the day, leaving Hotaru alone with her thoughts. She was expecting a visit from a stranger any day now, although almost wished he would never show. The Maven had made a promise to Skye that she would build another wolf a prosthetic arm. Hotaru had completed extensive project just a week before she gave birth. Making the prosthetics had been harder than she imagined. Not only would they have to take the weight of her client, but they would have to also stay on him and be practical.

The first task Hotaru had accomplished was a rather easy one compared to the weight and practicality problems. A simple harnessed had been fashioned for the wooden limbs, leather straps that wrapped around his chest and back. The leather had been secured to the wood with a strong adhesive that Hotaru had made herself. It was a common adhesive that she used to put furniture together, although not as easy to make as one might have thought. The straps themselves could be adjusted using an old buckle that Hotaru had acquired. Hopefully, they would fit her client who was rumored to large.

Once the problem of attachment had been solved, Hotaru had gone through several designs for both sets of prosthetics. She had created an arm for the optima form and a leg that would hopefully sustain both the lupus and secui forms. The leg was thick close to the top and thinned out a little at it's base. Wrapped around the base was another piece of hard leather to help the leg grip the ground. Hotaru had experimented with several types of wood but found a suitably hard wood after several rounds of trial and error. The optima arm was built to look more decorative that functional. It had a simple hinge around the elbow that would allow the forearm to be moved and Hotaru had designed the arm to look more like a real arm than the leg she had made.

The biggest thing Hotaru worried about was that her designs would fail. However, those worries had been pushed aside when Aiden and Aysun were born.

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