The Warrior has been rescued, but her troubles are far from being over...
Some of this happened before I came on. :)
Ferravale Infirmary, main room
Oakenpaw the hare. Nightbreath the ermine and Emyuil the mouse. DoraRose the mouse.
Oakenpaw is busily cleaning the Infirmary
Nightbreath walks in to stock up on supplies before moving to Redwall until the crisis has passed, so that he may better advise the leadership of the Abbey.
Oakenpaw looks up "breath of the Night? Hullo..where ya goin?"
"I am relocating temporarily," Nightbreath says as he picks out a few herbs to place in his pouches. "Intuition tells me that it would be best to be at Redwall over the next few days."
Oakenpaw Walks over and drapes an arm around his friend "Why is that? You know you have about the greatest name to say in all Mossflower.. Breath o the night.....it sings wot?"
Nightbreath smiles bashfully. "Thank you, friend. Nightfur is dead but his evil remains. There is no guarantee that his forces are annihlated," Nightbreath reasons. "I was going to make a combined force of Redwallers and Ferravalians to scour the countryside."
DoraRose groans as she slowly comes awake. After being in a faint for almost a week, she is now awakening, and her blue eyes slowly open and stare in a confused fashion at the ceiling.
Then the door swings open and Emyuil bolts in. "Where's my sister?" he demands loudly, scanning the room until he finds her. He runs over to the side of her bed and kneels there. "'rose...I'm sorry I didn't get to you in time. I meant to come save you."
Oakenpaw has his lupine face staring down at Dora Rose "Ello?
DoraRose frowns at the hare. "Um....do I...know you....?" but before she can await the hare's response, her brother comes dashing in, and a small smile spreads across her face. "Emyuil! Oh, my Emyuil Streamstone, it's so good to see you! I missed you!" She goes ot sit up, but then winces and lays back down, a paw on her left temple and the other on the back of her head. There is a bruised spot on the back of her head, but on her temple, there is a scabby area that on the surface is healing nicely, but inside, not so much...
Nightbreath smiles distantly at the reunion. Meanwhile Emyuil mutters, "It's Half-Rat," half-heartedly before smiling and taking his sister's paw in his own. "'rose," he says seriously, "I have really good news. D'y'wanna hear it?"
Oakenpaw is string down at Dorarose "Ello lass good to see you got the looks from yer family"
DoraRose frowns slightly as her brother takes a hold of her right paw. "Half-Rat? Wha...when did you change that? And...what news?" She glances at the hare, obviously getting a little freaked out by him...and there is an apparent lack of recognition in her face. She literally has no idea who he is. She has yet to see the Seer.
Oakenpaw says, "Tut tut..yer name be Dora Rose.. Rose o me Heart, beloved by beasts everywhere"
"I changed it a few seasons back, after you left, remember?" Emyuil has a good idea of what's going on but he's trying to deny it. "Our...our grandmother came to Redwall a few weeks ago." Nightbreath sighs and begins rifling through his pouches. He may be able to fix this as long as he's not out of that herb he used for Scioto...But drat! It's gone.
DoraRose glances at the hare. "I know what my name is, /Sir/. Who in the Earth are /you/?" She squeezes her brother's paw, momentarily distracted.
Oakenpaw asks, "Me? I am yer best friend, Oakenpaw T Bunny"
Nightbreath mutters to himself, "I must see Ragg immediately." Emyuil sighs and strokes his sister's head like a Dibbun's. A few tears gleam in his dark eyes.
Oakenpaw offers Emyuil a Candied Chestnut.
DoraRose slowly sits up and scoots a bit farther away from the hare. "I'm sorry, but I don't know you. You said our grandmother is at Redwall, Emmy? That's wonderful! Did you meet her?"
Nightbreath resumes rifling through his pouches, double-checking. A few more tears streak Emyuil's scarred face and he gulps, nodding. "Yes," he says, trying to sound happy but failing.
Oakenpaw asks, "blink blinks "How can ya not know me? When I am one of Leon's healer beasts, and Friends with Lee, and you?"
DoraRose shakes her head and points to the wound on her left temple. "Nightfur...he had Zork chained up, and was going to slash his throat, so I...I attacked him. Or at least....that's what Zork told me." She looks depressed as she continues. "Nightfur, in self-defense, hit me in the head with his sword hilt and....did this." She shrugs. "Now I don't know if my memories are real, or from dreams. And I have such a fierce headache..." she mumbles this last part, screwing her eyes tightly shut.
Tears flow openly from Emyuil's face as he sobs quietly, hunched over his sister. "I'll...I-I'll do something to help. I don't know what but..." Nightbreath remains calm, watching with a cool gaze.
Oakenpaw claps a paw on the Mouse's back "She will be fine, nice as yer sister is Mice 'ave hard heads"
DoraRose stiffens under the hare's paw and opens one eyes to glare painfully at him. "Thank you so much for the added pain. I totally wanted that." Her sarcasm is biting, cruel, and meant. Removing her paw from her brothers clasp, she goes to pull him close to her, trying to be strong for them both, but she's on the verge of cracking and crying and screaming and cursing. But she's not there...not quite yet...
Emyuil cries softly into his sister's shoulder as Nightbreath continues to look on calculatingly. He has a plan but he'll give the two their time together for now before he proposes it.
Oakenpaw moves over to get some Willowbark tea for her head, "So how can a humble hare be of help in a situation such as this?
DoraRose takes the tea in her paw that's not wrapped around her brother's shoulders and shrugs, trying to fight down the feeling of needing to scream hysterically. "Well, if this tea is what I think it is, you've helped already." She sips it and smiles in a slightly demented manner. She is finally letting everything she's been feeling, everything she's had to endure for the past few weeks, come roaring to the surface, but she can't cry because her brother is needing her comfort right now.
Emyuil stops crying and rasps for breath a few times, coughing before burying his face in his sister's shoulder again and closing his eyes, trying to calm down. Nightbreath steps forward and murmurs, "I may be of assistance here."
Oakenpaw smiles and tips his paw to DR, bendint part of his long ear "I'm ere to elp lass"
DoraRose smiles a little more calmly at the hare, then turns to the Seer, frowning slightly as she just now notices him. "Um, you're....Nightbreath? Right? We....we don't hate each-other.....yeah?"
"Not anymore," Nightbreath says smoothly. "Once but no more. I'd like to offer my services. If your memories do not return, I may be able to retrieve certain herbs to restore it. Rare but powerful. I have a recipe of sorts," his mouth twists in a wry grin, "that seems to work."
Oakenpaw sits down his large foot paws crossing as he begin crunching nosily at some candied Chestnuts.
DoraRose frowns a little more deeply and sets the tea down, pressing the side of her head gently. "How do you know it works?" She starts distractedly rubbing her brother's back.
Emyuil draws a shivering, shaky breath and lets it out slowly. Nightbreath says flatly, "I used it on Scioto when he lost his memory a few months ago."
Oakenpaw asks, "The Breath o night be amazing I can say that, wot?"
DoraRose frowns, thinking, then shudders and sits up more, releasing her brother and removing her support as she clasps her head, fighting down a scream. "Smoke....smoke rising in the distance....Scioto died....but I remember him fighting....fighting Nightfur....Ungh.....I don't understand...." she wails, taking shuddering breaths as she starts to freak out in an almost epic way.
Emyuil quickly throws his arms around his sister, as Nightbreath kneels now on the opposite side of the bed. "No," he interjects. "That was a dream." He smiles distantly at Oakenpaw's praise.
Oakenpaw blink blinks and gets some more roasted nuts to watches, he leans forward watching DR as this promises to be quite a GOOD tantrum watching closely
DoraRose starts to hyperventilate, her voice shrill as she says, "And the fire spread to Mossflower....the Abbey burned down....Leon was caught....Leon....he's...he can't be dead! He can't! He can't!" She starts screaming unintelligibly, shivering as tears stream down her cheeks.
Nightbreath seizes DoraRose roughly by her shirt and yanks her forward so they're nose to nose, hopefully startling her into silence. Emyuil bellows but Nightbreath ignores him. "Listen to me," he hisses coldly. "it was a dream. You are all right. Redwall still stands and Leon, as far as I know, is alive." Emyuil gets up and shoves the Seer aside and strokes his sister's back, whispering things to her in a soothing voice and staring daggers at the Seer.
Oakenpaw rubs his paws together, leaning forward to watch, if he had a slate he'd take notes of Nightbreath's techniques.
DoraRose catches her breath and gulps as the ermine sets her straight on the facts. She is shaking violently as her brother hugs her close, and she buries her face in his shirt and sobs.
And thus the roles are reversed. Emyuil tries not to cry again and gulps, managing it. Nightbreath meanwhile recovers his balance and dusts off his robe. Emyuil thinks frantically, what would Ferrer do? What would Ferrer do?...
Oakenpaw looks around and his ears stand straight up....listening, watching the Ermine as he says under his breath "Oh Good show Chap"
DoraRose is still crying, but it's more out of relief that those certain memories are false. "So...L....Leon's....oh....okay?" she manages to get out.
"Yes. He's fine," Emyuil says slowly. "I saw him less than a week ago." Nightbreath glares distantly at Oakenpaw. "This is not a show," he mouths. Emyuil stays there for some time, while Nightbreath departs.
Oakenpaw goes to DoraRose "Can I help lass?"
DoraRose shrugs and picks up her tea with a shaking paw, coughing slightly, since she's still crying as she tries to drink her tea.
Oakenpaw offer her a Kechrief "My mate came back too..I cried for a whole day"
DoraRose accepts the hankie and wipes her eyes, then sips her tea. "What happened to your mate?" she asks; anything to distract her from her troubles.
Oakenpaw says, "Hmm She was captured fer almost 4 seasons by Nightfur, she disappeared one eve, I thought er dead"
DoraRose looks at the hare compassionately. "I'm sorry. Is she here in Ferravale now?"
Oakenpaw nod nods "back to me and my leverets"
DoraRose smiles softly. "I hope to be back with Leon and our Dibbuns here very soon..." she murmers, sipping her tea.
Oakenpaw says, "Well I have sent ole Flicky word so they know ye be ok" Oakenpaw says, "My Mate is Willowheart"
DoraRose smiles softly, deciding not to ask and be sure she remembers who Flicktail is. "I remember seeing her in the cells, but I never spoke to her. She's seems very kind."
Oakenpaw says, "she is kind and lovely and wunnerful... like you"
DoraRose blushes and looks at her lap. "thank you...I...I'm sorry I don't remember you. I wish I did..."
And here I had to leave. Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this log as much as I enjoyed RPing it :)
Oakenpaw asks, "Well it's ok Wot? Getthe pleasure o getting ta know ya all over wot?"
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