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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 13, 2012 18:40:13 GMT -5
May grinned and crushed her friend back.
"You don't look like you need too much help, just a few good meals." May said, assessing. "Auntie Ama's here? I haven't seen anyone yet, not really. I was fighting along side Elly earlier, but I don't know where everyone is, but Elly and Aeron shouldn't be to hard to find, look for the one everyone seems to be mimicking."
She looked him over one more time. "Any injuries that I need to tend to I can't see?" she asked.
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Post by Rastus on May 14, 2012 20:44:18 GMT -5
(ooc. my arms. /sobs. I may have enjoyed my first kick boxing class but I"m going to pay for it for the rest of the week. )
"These 'few good meals' you mention wouldn't happen to be cooked by Lily, would they? Because I might just gain a few hundred pounds. Not that I couldn't use them. " Rast said, patting his stomach. "Yeah, Auntie Ama was in there with us. Gabe was the one that squealed like a little girl, by the way. That's the truth."
He looked himself over.
"Nothing that you should concern yourself with." He said, appreciating her concern, but at the same time brushing it off. He was probably the least injured of many of these people, due to his relatively short stint. And because of that, he needed to be the least of her concerns. Nepotism couldn't be an excuse here.
He crushed her again.
"Aeron's made himself a mockery again? One can just never expect that boy to be normal, can they? Listen, I"m going to go see if there's anything I can do." He said. "But I expect that all of us will be sitting around a campfire later and you'll be filling in Gabe and I on what happened while we were on vacation."
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 14, 2012 21:13:59 GMT -5
May laughed and nodded. She squeezed him tight.
"Lily would be more than slighlty happy to feed you, tons of food, with many many sides, and desserts." May said. She nodded, and smiled. "Go find that mockery, he'll give you a hug and a task. Now I have injured to help, move it!"
She grinned at her friend and went to the next person that needed help, any minor injuries she left off to one of the people helping anything major, she dealt with herself. She managed to take care of most of the people, and the people cooking had most of them with full stomachs now, thank god, and sleep. Now they just needed to get home so they could sleep in their own beds.
Soon the sky was dark and May had seen everyone with pressing injuries.
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 15, 2012 18:20:10 GMT -5
After Elly's arm was bandaged and she had found Rast and then Gabe, who was suffering from a head injury, a broken arm, and some various things, and she had sufficiently tackled them and squeezed the life out of them in celebration, she settled down for a bit while people went to rest. In the morning they were leaving, as quickly as possible, but for now they couldn't.
Lily, as she saw in the distance, was leading someone over. It was a woman, with long dark hair, thin limbs and a slow, somewhat defeated walk. Her face seemed gaunt and for a moment, Elly didn't recognize her. And then she did. And then her heart dropped into her feet.
Mama.
MAMA.
Elly ran over, tears already forming and hugged her mother.
"Mama! Is that you!? Is it really you?! Where have you been all this time?! Are you alright?! What happened?!" Elly asked, the questions pouring out of her as quickly as milk out of a jug. She hugged her mother again and started crying. Her mother hugged her back, tears of her own forming.
"Oh baby, it's a long story." Was all Amaya could say. Aeron didn't see the scene before, but he saw Elly hugging someone and went over to see who it was. When he saw...Well....That sobbing twosome became a three some.
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 19, 2012 11:44:10 GMT -5
May watched around her as people ran and met and cried and were reunited. She had a slight smile on her face watching all of it. She was lost in healing though, and running out of slave to get the wounds to close quicker.
It had broken her heart to treat Gabe, sweet Gabe. He looked so battered, but his eyes were still light with intelligence.
May currently was kneeling next to a friend she'd had, holding her hand. She was loopy. "You always had such pretty hair," she said. "I wanted it for such a long time. You know my mom had hair like that. If you see her, will you tell her I loved her?"
May nodded. "Of course."
The girl reached up and played with one of the bits of hair that was falling out of May's braid. Soon her eyes closed and hand fell. May sighed and pushed the girl's hair out of her face, and placed her hands across each other before the boys that were burying the bodies took her. She nodded to them and went on.
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 20, 2012 16:45:08 GMT -5
Soon it was morning. There was nothing Elly would like more than to stay a day or two extra, because there were some people who should not be moved. But if any of them wanted to survive, they had to get moving. Eventually someone would be here with more people and they couldn't take the chance that they'd be found. None of htem were in the position to be able to defend everyone properly and the likelihood that many of them would be slaughtered was huge if they were found. So at first light, Elly began rounding people up. Those who could walk needed to walk. They had a few carts to carry people in, but not enough. Any one who was light enough to be carried and anyone who was strong enough to carry for hours and miles on end were paired up. There just wasn't any other options.
Elly took a deep breath. She hoped that the other teams would fare better than they did. They had known going in there would be loss and that they wouldn't find anything pretty. But this was worse than expected. They were underequipped, under-handed, and over burdened. But they needed to get the rendezvous point for that to change and for them to get help and more salve and bandages and medical attention.
After everyone was situated to the best of their ability, they were pressed enough for time that they had to set out instantly for what would be a slow trek to Brayelle. Anyone who was strong and mostly untasked had earlier been making it look, to the best of their ability, that there wasn't any trace of them and they would be at the end of the group to make sure there was very little trail. After all, their group of maybe fifteen had quickly turned into a group almost seventy strong. The small trail they had left coming in would be huge coming out.
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 22, 2012 17:51:03 GMT -5
May had to quickly give instructions to those helping her with the sick, she'd been up early - or well she hadn't really gone to sleep- and had changed almost everyone's bandages she could, given more medicine to those who needed it. She had over packed, but not over packed enough, some of the bandages were makeshift from large leaves and clothing she'd staid up boiling from those willing to let her use it.
When they started moving everything was going fine, so far. She hoped it would stay this way, but doubted it really would.
She found Elly as they started moving, in one of the few moments she wasn't being accosted by everyone. "Hey, sweetie. How are you doing?" she whispered.
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 22, 2012 21:55:16 GMT -5
"Hmmm...I think that's hard to describe. On one hand, I've lost several comrades and obviously that's kinda depressing. On the other hand, my mother whom I thought was dead is alive, mostly intact, and coming home with us." Elly said.
She grabbed May's hand.
"You?"
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 22, 2012 22:10:26 GMT -5
May squeezed her friend's hand.
"I'm tired. Ready to get home." May said. "I think everyone here is."
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 22, 2012 22:22:10 GMT -5
Elly looked around. Some of them had been in there for years. The longest count was a decade and a half.
"I just worry if home and family even exists for some anymore." Elly said, quietly enough that only May would hear. "I know that we're going to help them out and well, let's face it, with Mom alive, she's still the leader of the Crescents and there's no way that once she gets back to work all these people will be unemployed. But who knows how long that'll be? Who knows if some of these people will want to be Crescents? Who knows if they'll stick around long enough after hearing that their house is sold, their spouse remarried, their kids don't know them? Who would want to?"
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 23, 2012 19:53:08 GMT -5
May nodded.
"I know. If they need out, we can get them out, somewhere else. We can help them, in what ever way we can. We're all realistic here, it's how we were raised. " May sighed and looked around. "We can at least hope for the best." She squeezed Elly's hand again. "We'll figure it out, let's just get them to safety first."
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 24, 2012 20:22:55 GMT -5
Elly returned the squeeze.
"You're right. One step, one breath at a time." Elly said. She took a deep breath and reflected on the past day. Her mother, Rast, Gabe. So much gained. But Sully, Gina, Peter, lost. And they weren't even the half of it.
One step at a time.
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Post by May Robin Forrest-Allen on May 25, 2012 19:13:22 GMT -5
May smiled.
"Come on, We're falling behind. Who do you wanna walk with, my lovely darling?" May asked.
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Post by Eleanor Smith on May 28, 2012 19:43:51 GMT -5
"I'm going to check on Annie Mae. She wasn't looking too good earlier, but an executive decision said that she needed to walk for now, since she was better off than some others." Elly said.
She ran ahead, ignoring the dull throb of her healing arm. She was lucky and she considered herself so.
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Post by Aeron Smith on May 31, 2012 17:14:06 GMT -5
The rendezvous point was a disaster. There were two other teams that had been sent out. One had returned half annihilated, the other wasn't yet back and Aeron was thinking that they would never make it at all.
He was sitting the bar, alone at the moment, in a huge booth because he knew it'd get used one way or another, and drinking. He was alone with his thoughts and that wasn't good. Because right now, he was in charge, de facto and de jure. And with the other group half gone and one group missing, they were fully under supplied, as the group travelling to Brayelle by sea, which never came, was bringing the extra supplies on their ship. They had less help and now even more injured. They'd completely taken over the city's medical needs, which was not a good thing because all these injured people walking around drew attention to them, which was something they didn't need as Crescents. He needed to get everyone to Kyyra and more importantly, to the base. But how, when so many could barely walk?
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