Talking while Nana works on the dress or Advice about the Bloodwrath
Redwall Abbey's Great Hall
Happens a little while after this log ICly: http://rwmuck.limitless.org/rwmuck/content/working-dress-3
Zork the badger. DoraRose the mouse.
Zork makes his way into the great hall and stops to glace at Martin and sighs as he leans back in his chair, in his own thoughts it would seem.
DoraRose has left her daughter and grandmother to finish working on LilyMoore's new dress. Angela is a surprisingly fast embrioderer, so the warrior is lettign her finish the fancy stitching. Entering Great Hall, she spots the badger and waves to him. "Good day, Zork." She comes over to him, stretching her cramped paws. "How are you today?"
Zork shrugs, " I am fairly well, just worried bout Zinnia, I want ta go check on her but I can't. If I could walk better I would try but me legs wont let me walk to far except maybe a few paw steps, tis not fair"
DoraRose resists the urge to tell the badger that life isn't fair and instead says, "I'm sure she's fine. I heard that you got a letter. Is she awake yet?" The mouse is a little behind on some of the news, but she doesn't seem very frustrated about it right now.
Zork nods and does smile at that "She is awake, wasnt in a deep faint as long as somene else....still I knows wot that poison can do, Zee expalined wot it was and I remember last I dealed with it" He frowns, "Not de best time in me life, while a go too I were maybe almost 8 seasons then..."
DoraRose sits down near the badger, nodding slightly. "I'm glad somebeast knows about it. Is it common around here?" She honestly has no idea what it was...she just knows it needs to be avoided.
Zork says, "No, its like in de snowy Northlands and even thar tis a little rare and grows only like 1/2 season""
DoraRose smiles, a little relieved. "So what is it? Is it, like, an herb or something?" She crosses her legs and settles deeper into her chair.
Zork frowns "Sort uh...roots of a flower, sadly a pretty flower, but maybe that's how it tricks ya...don't know. Couse some beast who was 2 seasons just pulled it up by de roots that day, got it all over his paws, but he was a wee bit worse, he got some in a gash on his knee somehow...think he fell I don't know I wasn't there I just found him not breathing very good and took him ta de infirm"
DoraRose nods, thinking. "Do you mind my asking who this beast was? And what's the cure, do you know?" She taps a finger on the arm of the chair as she thinks.
Zork answers "A small whiteish clover like flower that's even rarer....guess someone keeps cured and such around, up in de snowy north me adopted father luckily had it and helped. He was a wolf named Silverfangs, even had seer like abilities to him...he isn't around now, he died." He looks at Dorarose, "Oh the dibbun that it affected at de time...me little brother Ozzy. Ever wonder why he is weaker than most badgers...that's why, he survived, was in a deep faint a couple weeks and almost died twice, but thar were side effects. Unlike with me daughter....it also got in his blood from the cut he had, he got the powder on his knees somehow and...it got in his blood so took longer to get rid of it. I mean yeah he is stronger than say normal beasts but not stronger than ya normal badger, tis why he never learned ta use a weapon or anything, just de staff." He smiles "Which he is good with de staff..." He chuckles "Lot better than me, never learned ta use a staff...staffs were...boring ta me, hee hehe"
DoraRose hmms as she listens, then chuckles along with the badger. "Yes, I saw Oz training with his staff the other day. His is very skilled. I don't know how to use a staff, either. The one time I tried, I knocked myself out cold." She taps her finger again. "I wonder if we can get the clover anywhere..."
Zork says, "Not here lass, no where even close...sides its not used around here and whoever had it probally knew it too. Luckily a former enemy had an anidote with him My guess is they don't try to use it again and it were clover like flower, sort of, the good thing is the 3 beasts are ok now...course Zinnia is gonna be in Ferravale but I know she be safe thar" Zork says, "She will miss de feast but...she be safe still and ok now"
DoraRose nods. "I heard about the poisoning attempt from Leon. Pity traders wouldn't be carrying it. I wish Zinnia could be here for the feast, but yes, at least she's better now."
Zork smiles "And she has Uncle Zee fer company, he is gonna live in Ferravale says he likes it better now and he can chat with, as he puts it , the chiefie up thar and he has a staff he carries around he can bonk beasts on the head if need be and that staff hurts when he lightly bonks ya with it"
DoraRose wrinkles her nose. "I would imagine. He sounds kind of like Nana. She has whacked me with her staff on multiple occasions. I wonder if grumpiness just comes from being old..."
Zork chuckles "I am old but not grumpy, Lorimis is old and hmmms never seen him grumpy course he is abbot and maybe he isn't allowed ta be" He grins and hmmms again "Then again maybe depends on wot makes one grumpy I had ta learn to control me temper...cause well ya know." He sighs a little," Temper causes stress and stress causes other issues sometimes"
DoraRose nods sympathetically. "I wish Lily would learn to control her temper. She gets so angry sometimes. I fear she might end up having the Bloodwrath, like I do..."
Zork frowns at this, "That stuff can be bad...I always did me best ta control it and managed....well almost every time." He remembers somewhat "When that Nightfur were around, remember him?"
DoraRose thinks for a moment. "Yeah, I remember him. The slaver. What about him?"
Zork nods, "When I went to track him down, he were de one that had Zinnia as a slave, he was the one I rescued her from. I...found his camp and most of his helpers, I don't remember much just what heard...I lost control and went into bloodwrath and killed like 20 of his friends and wounded him, he managed to knock me out somehow and took me to a cell...I think I were still in bloodwrath some as remember managing ta rip a chain from de wall and choked a guard with it, I helped ta free a couple others he caught. I not told many of it just a couple and Leon were one of them....he said that may of been de cause of me weak heart, being in bloodwrath for like over 3...maybe 4 days...and I did have some chest pains but they went away after a week or so and never came back till off and on when Marek were here and then course that fight with de monitor lizard in de open ground...when I...almost died."
DoraRose nods as she listens. "I'm sorry." She murmurs. After a moment, she adds, "Do you think you can help Lily control her temper before she goes Bloodwrath?"
Zork hmms "Meditation maybe?"
DoraRose thinks for a moment, then nods. "Maybe. It'd be worth a shot. Thank you."
Zork smiles "Ya welcome Dorarose."
DoraRose stands and stretches. "I told Nan and Lily that I was getting them drinks, and I plumb forgot. Have a good day, Zork." Waving, she heads towards the kitchens.
Zork waves to Dorarose as she heads off
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