Keisha is probably one of the gentler of the Goddess' warriors among the Garou of Denver. She always has a warm smile for people and a kind word; she is of the "turn the other cheek" philosophy and even those who scoff at her vow against killing don't get angry words from her. She understands that everyone has their own way. She understands that hers is a difficult path to follow. She thinks she understands a lot.
That night, she is not warm and she is not smiling. And she doesn't understand anything. Because along with the two Shadow Lords who helped her rescue Champion of Honor and a Fianna who helped save her life this night, she emerged from the wrecked elevator bleeding and covered in the unholy burns caused by the unnatural chemical-flames. Her dedicated clothes are seared and practically falling off, but she doesn't pay it any heed. She's quiet, moving slowly with a quiet and almost vacant expression.
She doesn't stop though. Her staff is held in two hands, wrapped tightly around it as if it's a tree keeping her from being swept away by a hurricane. She leans on it to facilitate her walk (One of the nice things about Iskakku, her teacher once joked, is that you have your own cane when someone else has gotten through it and crippled you.) She stops just long enough to allow someone to cleanse her as long as is needed, waves off attempts to heal her.
"I'll be fine," she says quietly. "Save it for those who need it more."
As soon as she's cleansed, she gets a bit of her psyche back (just a bit) and joins the Theurges if allowed. She helps to heal, but particularly to perform final rites. She doesn't ask, doesn't beg, but she does insist unless someone specifically orders her not to. It's important to her, she argues. She needs to help give them the dignity in their passing that they were not allowed in their deaths. Including Champion of Honor...especially Champion of Honor. Even if she isn't allowed to help with the final rites, she wants to be there.
Mostly, she needs to be doing something to help. It allows her not to focus what she's witnessed, and the implications of what her own actions wrought. People had been talking about how she was the one who figured out how to find Champion of Honor, and they may well be talking about in a very different manner now. It's safe to say that Still Waters is definitely thinking about it very differently now.
She doesn't sleep. Not the first night, anyway. Not until she is made to, or she gives in. There's too much to do, and Still Waters run deep. She's a little afraid of exactly how deep her thoughts run.
Her Iskakku staff is almost a part of her being (certainly a part of her identity), and it stays with her throughout the ordeal. The staff is, like her, scathed and charred in parts. But it remains whole. And like it, Keisha is not broken, whatever people may think after the whole (catastrophe) incident.
She certainly is showing some splinters though.
That night, she is not warm and she is not smiling. And she doesn't understand anything. Because along with the two Shadow Lords who helped her rescue Champion of Honor and a Fianna who helped save her life this night, she emerged from the wrecked elevator bleeding and covered in the unholy burns caused by the unnatural chemical-flames. Her dedicated clothes are seared and practically falling off, but she doesn't pay it any heed. She's quiet, moving slowly with a quiet and almost vacant expression.
She doesn't stop though. Her staff is held in two hands, wrapped tightly around it as if it's a tree keeping her from being swept away by a hurricane. She leans on it to facilitate her walk (One of the nice things about Iskakku, her teacher once joked, is that you have your own cane when someone else has gotten through it and crippled you.) She stops just long enough to allow someone to cleanse her as long as is needed, waves off attempts to heal her.
"I'll be fine," she says quietly. "Save it for those who need it more."
As soon as she's cleansed, she gets a bit of her psyche back (just a bit) and joins the Theurges if allowed. She helps to heal, but particularly to perform final rites. She doesn't ask, doesn't beg, but she does insist unless someone specifically orders her not to. It's important to her, she argues. She needs to help give them the dignity in their passing that they were not allowed in their deaths. Including Champion of Honor...especially Champion of Honor. Even if she isn't allowed to help with the final rites, she wants to be there.
Mostly, she needs to be doing something to help. It allows her not to focus what she's witnessed, and the implications of what her own actions wrought. People had been talking about how she was the one who figured out how to find Champion of Honor, and they may well be talking about in a very different manner now. It's safe to say that Still Waters is definitely thinking about it very differently now.
She doesn't sleep. Not the first night, anyway. Not until she is made to, or she gives in. There's too much to do, and Still Waters run deep. She's a little afraid of exactly how deep her thoughts run.
Her Iskakku staff is almost a part of her being (certainly a part of her identity), and it stays with her throughout the ordeal. The staff is, like her, scathed and charred in parts. But it remains whole. And like it, Keisha is not broken, whatever people may think after the whole (catastrophe) incident.
She certainly is showing some splinters though.
"The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."
"Good men don't need rules. And today's not the day to find out why I have so many."