06-09-2014, 08:19 AM
Ian looks up at the hole in the ceiling, and Sid is already climbing over the wreckage of the ceiling and the fallen to get to him, her face a tangle of emotion. "Stop," she says, did he really think one of them would let him walk away wounded? In this place? After all of that? Her voice is low and tremulous. Is that a tone that Ian knows or would even recognize? Nerves, adrenaline, relief, anger (Desperate from the struggle, euphoric that they're all alive, empowered because she has lived through this nightmare and she's lived through terrible things that were true). Like a parent or guardian when their charge wanders in well after curfew. That's what Sid sounds like.
And if he keeps going? She'll follow him. With her Pattern rent and aching she will follow Ian Lai and she will see to his shoulder herself. And if Ian will allow her (and woe to him if he refuses), she will say to him in a voice still tinged with anger and yet somehow gentle, "This is going to hurt." She says it like she understands because she does. She knows what it feels like to have the shoulder joint popped from its socket and she knows what it feels like to have it shoved back into place. She doesn't tell him I told you to run, she assumes that through pain he's learned his lesson.
So many of their lessons are learned through pain.
And then she'll heal him. Because a dislocated shoulder replaced could still cause him problems later if not healed properly. Sid knows that, too. Hers still bothers her. Someday she'll think to fix that weakness, but someday is not today. Today she tends to others before herself. This truly selfless act is tainted by the grief and shame from previous hurts and wrongs she's inflicted on other people.
Once Ian is seen to, Sid lets him go where he will go. He has his trusted steed to find and she has hers to find, as well. "When you find her bring her here so I can heal her, too."
Then, and only then, does she look to Kalen, brow furrowed with pain and weariness and still that touch of anger and still that touch of relief. "Check the house," she tells him. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
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[[if you'd like some rolls for the stuff mentioned, Howl, I will toss you some rolls for all the heals and things!]]
And if he keeps going? She'll follow him. With her Pattern rent and aching she will follow Ian Lai and she will see to his shoulder herself. And if Ian will allow her (and woe to him if he refuses), she will say to him in a voice still tinged with anger and yet somehow gentle, "This is going to hurt." She says it like she understands because she does. She knows what it feels like to have the shoulder joint popped from its socket and she knows what it feels like to have it shoved back into place. She doesn't tell him I told you to run, she assumes that through pain he's learned his lesson.
So many of their lessons are learned through pain.
And then she'll heal him. Because a dislocated shoulder replaced could still cause him problems later if not healed properly. Sid knows that, too. Hers still bothers her. Someday she'll think to fix that weakness, but someday is not today. Today she tends to others before herself. This truly selfless act is tainted by the grief and shame from previous hurts and wrongs she's inflicted on other people.
Once Ian is seen to, Sid lets him go where he will go. He has his trusted steed to find and she has hers to find, as well. "When you find her bring her here so I can heal her, too."
Then, and only then, does she look to Kalen, brow furrowed with pain and weariness and still that touch of anger and still that touch of relief. "Check the house," she tells him. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
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[[if you'd like some rolls for the stuff mentioned, Howl, I will toss you some rolls for all the heals and things!]]