The Mysterious Illness
A Mysterious Illness Logged by Nightlily, 6-03-01
RW Abbey: Infirmary Recovery
This comfortable, but spartan room has several small alcoves lining the wall. Infirmary bunks with resting and recovering patients are in these alcoves, each cordoned with a gossamer drapery of linen for privacy. The room is lit with oil lamps and the pleasing warmth of a small hearth fire. This room is kept quiet, except for the occasional snore, hacking cough or sniffle of its sleeping infirmary occupants.
A small table holding simple medicinals is adjacent the wall, alongside a small cistern of fresh water.
Exits: [Back] to the Main Infirmary With: [ZZZ] a neat builder (onj) [ZZZ] Xander [ZZZ] Resting, healing, a mess of bandages on her side. *Artoni* [ZZZ] stab wounds on his wings, disabling him from flight. (Sapei) [ZZZ] Zipzar [ZZZ] Igloo [ZZZ] Silverleaf [ZZZ] Grinner's going for a new record! That's why he's here. [ZZZ] Mini-Sunpaw [ZZZ] Risco'lyn [ZZZ] Demi [ZZZ] Uhoh he injured again it (kemp)
Skylet comes in from the Infirmary... Skylet has arrived.
Haggard, Nightlily Clayr Healermouse moves along the row orf beds in the Recovery Room, changing compresses on fevered brows, and pausing to retie the bandage on a Dibbun's sprained paw. There are slight pouches under her eyes, and her normally graceful carriage is somewhat slumped.
Xander has connected.
"Sista Nightlilly?" A small dibbun head pears around the doorway. "Dat you? Whereyabeen?"
Nightlily ties a knot in the sleeping Dibbun's bandage with a deft movement, and turns to face the speaker. She blinks. "Oh, why hello, Skylet. I've been out herb-picking. Can you believe I can't find -anything- for rheumatism...oh, well, nevermind. Is anything wrong?" Her voice is soft, so as not to wake the sleeping patients, and she glides towards Skylet as she talks.
Sapei has connected.
The ferret slowly awakens and tugs his hood over his face. Eyeing the other beasts for a long moment, Xander slowly stands and shakes his head.
Zipzar has connected.
Zipzar returns to the Main Infirmary... Zipzar has left.
Xander returns to the Main Infirmary... >> A swift movement and the ferret slips out of the area quietly like a mid-summers breeze. Xander has left.
( Is anything *wrong*? Funny she should ask. "Dere's losts wrong!", Skylet pipes up. "Fatha Brocmal's sick, Lillybud's sick, an I fink Muvva Heartwood's sick too..." )
"What? I never heard about this." Nightlily looks suprised, and well she might. "What's wrong? Can I help?" For all her weariness before, she certainly sounds concerned and active now. Maybe it's the suprise.
( is sleepin still :) )
Sapei is the one sleepin that is
Sapei has disconnected.
Skylet flicks her tail. "Wells everybeast's a'been looking for ya! No otherbeasts is sure what to do..."
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry..." Nightlily looks pretty distraught by now. "I'm always away at the worst times...can you take me to them?"
Skylet asks, "I's can take yas ta Muvva Heartwood first?""
Nightlily waves away the question. "Sure, sure, whomever you like, Heartwood's fine. Just lead me to them." She starts towards the door.
Skylet returns to the Main Infirmary... Skylet has left.
- A few minutes later*
RW Abbey: Dibbun's Room == ====== -------- ---- About you is a rather dis-organized room. Everything from clothing to a few toys to empty dishes are spread about the place in a giant mess that suggests that either a tornado went through this location, or perhaps, a sometimes rather similar thing, a large amount of dibbuns. The shape is of a square, and a few pieces of furniture are near the walls. Piles of miscellanious dibbun toys are heaped onto everything around. Your light source appears to be a few torches lit almost all the time, hanging onto the walls, held higher up by torch-holders. They light the place rather well. You realize that the temperature is rather nice in here, not hot, but also not cold. Very well put in-between the two. You see two doors along one wall. One is labeled "Boys Room", and the other "Girls Room". Two other doors come from this room. One leads into a neatly organized, clean room, though what it's purpose is is hard to tell. The other goes into a hallway. You are in the main bed-room of the Dibbuns of Redwall! Exits: [H]eartwood's [R]oom, [Girl]s Room, [Boy]s Room, Class Room of the [Dibbun]'s With: [DYN] I dun wanna grow up... (Skylet) [IC] Hallibur [ZZZ] Arik [EDT] Not herself... (Heartwood)
"She's in 'ere!" Skylet calls behind her as she runs ahead of the healermouse. "Muvva heartwood, I found sista Nightlily..."
Nightlily follows the Dibbun, worry evident on her face. "Thank you, Skylet," she murmurs absently; whether or not the Dibbun can hear is another matter entirely. She heads to Heartwood's side. "Heartwood, is everything all right?"
Hallibur looks around, not really knowing what to do. He looks at Nightlily, then the dibbun at her side, then finally to Heartwood. "What's bally going on 'ere," Hallibur asks.
"I don't rightly know myself," murmurs the Infirmary Keeper, but Night's attention remains focused on the Badgermum.
Heartwood is seated...or rather, slumped...in a semi upright position on one of the dibbuns beds, eyes squinted shut, paw resting on her striped features. "Mmmmph...Nightlily?" Her voice matches her looks...
"Yes, yes, it's me." Nightlily puts on her most soothing voice. "Listen, Heartwood, I need to know what's wrong with you...where you feel bad, and how you feel." She looks in her hands, suprised to find no healing implements there, and shakes her paws out. She then takes a good look at the Badgermum, noting what she can observe about her condition.
Heartwood moans softly. "Either my head or the room won't stop spinning", she mutters. "I cant tell which anymore...and my stomach wants to turn inside out"
Hallibur stares wonderingly at Heartwood after hearing her symptoms. "That sounds bad! You should do somethin' 'bout it, doncha know! Just can't go ignoring it." . "Nausea," says Nightlily sagely. She turns to Hallibur. "Excuse me, sir, could you run along to the kitchens and ask for some chamomile tea? Tell the cook it's for Mother Heartwood, and please hurry." Then she turns back to the sickbeast in question. "When did this start happening?"
Hallibur exits from this room of resting to a room of learning! Hallibur has left.
- After a bit*
Hallibur enters this room of resting from a room of learning! Hallibur has arrived.
Hallibur rushes into the room, out of breath. "The bally cook wouldn't give it to me, until I mentioned Mother Heartwood. Then he literally threw it to me!"
Hallibur holds out the tea.
"A few days, at least". Her spoken answers tend to be as short as possible. Probibly not a bad idea in this case. She tries to open her eyes slightly...and changes her mind rather fast. "Mmmph..."
Nightlily takes it with a steady hand, wary of spilling. "Thank you," she says, rewarding the hare with a warm smile. She then holds the tea out to Heartwood. "Drink slowly...days?" She does not look pleased, and her worried expression increases. "And your voice..." And, as Heartwood opens her eyes briefly, "And your eyes! Do you remember anything special you did before you got sick? Things you don't do every day?"
Hallibur pants as he tries to regain his breath. He says Nightlily, "Welcome. Do you think it's contagious? Don't want the little dibbuns to catch it, ya know. They'd probably make a bigger mess tryin' to walk and crawl 'round!" He chuckles to himself at the site of dibbuns making a mess bigger then they already are. He then becomes serious as he returns to reality.
"I don't know," sighs Nightlily to Hallibur. "I'm thinking it might be; Skylet here informs me that there are others sick as well. Unless they all have something different, they might have caught it from one another."
Heartwood shakes her head...the look on her face betraying the fact that her body dosent agree with even that small motion. She has to force her eyes open long enough to find the teacup though...and even then, her paw misses it a few times.
Hallibur moans at the thought of the virus (or whatever it is) being contagious. "I couldn't bally well take it! Me, I have a time with the sniffles, let alone this!" He moans again, and looks at the sick badger mother. "Get better, the dibbuns will get outa hand without you!"
"Hmmm..." Nightlily relinquishes the tea thoughtfully. She drags a toy crate over to the chair and sits the crate beside it. "Put the tea there between sips if you can't hold it steady," she advises, though her mind is clearly elsewhere. "Well, I'll look into the other cases and see if they're the same, and if they remember anything more than you do. Since this has been lasting for days, it's probably more serious than something you ate. I'll see that tea gets sent to you regularly, until I find out more." She turns to the hare and the Dibbun. "We don't know if this is contagious, so you'd best stay away from Mother Heartwood, and anyone who looks sick the same as her. If she wants something, you can certainly help her, but try not to catch anything." With that, she sweeps out. "Going to research this..."
Hallibur nods to Nightlily. "Anything for you and Mother Heartwood. Starting to get a little stomach ache, so I'm gonna go lay down. G'night, all." With this, the hare leaves the room to go walking to try and get rid of his stomach ache.
