A medical emergency
Jun. 3rd, 2018 08:47 pmA deep navy cloak hides his features and the more ornate tunic the courtesan usually wears to greet his clients. Mal hunches his shoulders and slides through the crowds hoping to avoid notice. He keeps his head down until he reaches the home of the doctor and wraps smartly on the door. "Open up," he calls in a voice that expects to be listened to.
How much time did he have? He could not have a client bleeding out. Not this one. Not one who had come to him for help, to be treated privately.
How much time did he have? He could not have a client bleeding out. Not this one. Not one who had come to him for help, to be treated privately.
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:06 pm (UTC)It should have been terrifying but Mal sees it as Regis' greatest form of protection of him. "Beautiful," he says softy, hoping Regis will catch it and understand it.
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:15 pm (UTC)The bat lunges. There's no room in the woods to fly, but it doesn't need to. It's on the chort in no more than a second. What follows is a bloodbath. It tears into the beast, piercing that thick hide with both claws and fangs, tearing and ripping, never once letting go, never letting up in its savagery. Even after the chort has fallen, dead, does it keep on tearing it apart, soaked in its blood.
Until finally it looks up, vicious blood red eyes fixing on Mal.
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:20 pm (UTC)He gulps and pulls himself up a little holding his hand out palm upwards. His voice is soothing, "Hi. Thank you for saving my life."
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:31 pm (UTC)"Do you mind if I help you clean up a little to say thank you?" Is it shock that makes him so calm? Or complete faith in Regis. He thinks and hopes it is the latter.
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:40 pm (UTC)Then it suddenly rears up, throwing itself backwards, away from Mal. Stumbling over the carcass it falls and clumsily crawls away. As it does it shrinks, its shape warping and twisting in an obscene rewind of the first transformation, until Regis is there again, if as a crumpled and heaving shape on the forest floor, gasping for breath, naked and covered head to toe in blood and gore.
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:45 pm (UTC)With his non bloody hand he reaches out and cups Regis' cheek. "Thank you," he says, "For saving my life. You may," there is a shaky laugh, "need a bath."
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Date: 2018-07-04 10:52 pm (UTC)But this should not be about him, it is not about him. He can smell Mal's blood because he is injured. He must control himself.
"Are you badly hurt?"
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Date: 2018-07-05 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-05 07:40 am (UTC)"After I have seen you safely to the cabin, I must..." He made a gesture at himself, at all the blood. As Mal had said, he needed to wash it off. "After, I can attend your injuries."
He stands slowly but not unsteadily. In form he's human again and yet everything about him where he stands naked and drenched in blood screams that he's not. He absolutely is not. On his belly, where claws had cut deep into his abdomen mere moments ago, there is no sign of injury.
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Date: 2018-07-05 07:47 am (UTC)He looks at Regis stomach area. “Another useful skill, this fast healing.”
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Date: 2018-07-05 07:53 am (UTC)"But it isn't without limits. I have been injured badly enough more than once that it had incapacitated me. That chort could have managed to do just that."
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Date: 2018-07-05 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-05 08:03 am (UTC)He watches the paleness of Mal's skin, wondering more and more if he should lift and carry Mal, despite the blood. The chort's and... Mal's. "I should have been there. I put you in danger."
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-05 08:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-05 08:21 am (UTC)"It's okay." He smiles across. "I may get a scar out of this." And he would be a little less perfect. That is appealing.
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-07-05 08:32 am (UTC)"Go, clean up. I'll simply sit on a bench till you are back and rest."
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:39 am (UTC)Regis nods. "I will be quick. Call out if you need me."
There is a stream, just a stone's throw from the cabin. That's where Regis goes, wading out into the cold waters to submerge himself, scrubbing a his skin and letting the stream carry the blood away.
When he returns there is still some rivulets of tinted water running over his skin, some spots he'd missed, but he looks and feels much better.
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:46 am (UTC)He opens his eyes when Regis makes it back, it had seemed like a lifetime. "That looks better," he says softly.
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:52 am (UTC)He holds out his hands, the first touch he's volunteered since it all happened. "Come. Let us get you to a bed so I can take a look at you."
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Date: 2018-07-05 08:57 am (UTC)"My hand isn't trembling because I am scared of you." Mal feels he needs to explain it so Regis doesn't misinterpret it. "I think, it is reaction to the injury."'
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Date: 2018-07-05 09:12 am (UTC)He lays a hand on Mal's over the wound, ever so lightly, not putting any more pressure down. Then he takes it and lifts it. "Though I would not blame you, if you trembled because of me," he continues more quietly, somberly. "It is one thing to know about something, another to experience it."
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Date: 2018-07-05 09:16 am (UTC)"It was intense to witness but you went to such lengths for me."
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