(Earth) Chasing Shadows

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

What: Searching for Whatever Maleficent's People Are Up To
Who: Mabry, Medrau, Others
When: May 6, 2011
Where: Earth, Oregon, Gummi-Ship, Wherever the Trail Takes Us

Mabry hesitantly landed the borrowed gummi-ship at the agreed upon coordinates. She was still only an indifferent pilot, but necessity had forced her to it. She felt lonely. She had left Ashlyn at home, and while it wasn't the first time, it wasn't yet something that seemed routine. Just last week, they had celebrated Ashlyn's second birthday with cake, ice cream, presents, and her first pair of "big girl panties." Leaving her just now was especially difficult. And then there was Songbird. Mabry had just as strong an inclination to go to Twilight Town to be there for her younger sister.

But this had to come first. There was no avoiding it. So she flashed the gummi-ship's lights and settled herself to wait for Medrau.

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[belegwen.livejournal.com]

Mabry looked at her sadly. "Why . . . not?"

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

"Stupid... possession.... precautions." Her search for words inadvertently echoed Mabry's staggered speech. "If I can hurt you, I could do it to someone else."

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

"Better . . . for . . . you . . . to be . . .where we . . . can keep . . .an eye . . on you," Mabry pointed out. "If . . . if you . . . go . . . there's . . . nothing . . . any of . . .us . . .can do . . . to help."

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Right, there was her own argument thrown back at her. Didn't it figure? She'd been the one to scold and fuss each time someone else ran off for that reason. Despite her own history, she'd never experienced the emotional basis for that kind of decision. It was a real effort to let Mabry's logic - her own logic - convince her, and that pissed her off further. She should be the one to know better, after all.

"Fine. Whatever."

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

"And . . . you can . . . fight this," Mabry went on weakly. "You've . . . done it . . . before. . . . I've . . . always . . . had . . . faith . . . in you."

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

"I told you to stop talking," she muttered in response, but with less of her wolfish growl.
"It's different, anyway."

Laaame braindead right before bed tag

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

The sound of a gummi ship landing was the first warning that someone was coming.

The sound of Aria's random swearing came a few minutes later but, it will be a minute or two before she comes within sight.

Re: Laaame braindead right before bed tag

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

Mabry coughed again. "You have . . . the worst . . . bedside . . . manner . . . . and I . . . think out . . . ride is . . .here."

Privately, she made up her mind not to drop the subject.

She also thought about how much being moved was going to suck.

But that was alright, help had arrived and she was going to a hospital. Good.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Song surged to her feet and nearly crashed into the wall on her way out. She didn't remember coming through the tunnel or the outer temple, and she didn't get very far before her body remembered that she'd spent most of her energy keeping Mabry alive, but it didn't really matter as long as they were found.

"Aria! We're here!"

typo >.>

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

Aria quickly headed to the call. When she got within sight she noted that Song looked like shit.

She'd spent the trip detaching one of the bunks from her ship and was bringing it since she didn't have a proper stretcher.

"Lets go. I sent for Seph," she said quickly without stopping her trek to the cave. "He'll either open a corridor to a hospital or just make carrying her a lot easier so, he'll be a help."

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

"That won't fit through the tunnel," she gestured at the cot. "If Seph can portal her out, that'd be best. She glanced back into the cavern, then in the direction of the ships, still a bit frantic. "Look, I'll wait here for Seph. You go tell her he's coming."
She wouldn't run, but it was very hard to be around her injured sister just now. She'd take what small escape she could get.

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

"He might be reluctant to do that. He's been really careful about exposing people to the corridors lately." Still, she dropped the thing and hurried into the cave. "Though, if it's that narrow it might be impossible to carry her out otherwise," she said before she got out of earshot.

Which looked like would be the case. She'd suggest Seph take her right to a hospital once he got inside but, he'd never been to one. It might actually be faster to find one by gummi ship.

Well, at least she was pretty sure she could heal well enough to keep her from dying before then. Hell, Pancake could probably do that.

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

Mabry could hear the conversation pretty clearly from where she lay in the tunnel. Something in the echoes brought their voices back to her as if they were only a few feet away. She tried to straighten herself to look less bad than she was, but her limbs were not feeling particularly responsive, so she merely forced a smile and gathered her strength to reassure Aria that she really wasn't dying just now.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

Alone for the moment, Song leaned against the outer wall of the cave temple and let herself sink to the ground. She needed to collect herself and figure out exactly what was going on here. Getting all the answers would probably require a dream dive and an interrogation with a few villains, and the fact that Song couldn't do all of that right now was very frustrating. For all she knew, Medrau would come back and change her mind, assuming it even was Medrau. Mabry'd seen her, but glamours and illusions were certainly not unheard of. She still couldn't believe that the new Refugee was somehow herself.

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

A minute or two later Seph stepped out of a Corridor about halfway between the ships and the cave. It only took him a few seconds to spot Song sitting against the wall.

"They're inside," he muttered when he got close. It wasn't a question. It was fairly obvious that they were. Song looked like she needed to talk but, taking care of Mabry couldn't wait that long.

"Will you be alright here by yourself?" Of course he was going in without her no matter what the answer but, he felt the need to ask.

[songbird9.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I'm fine." She waved him on. Then, as an afterthought, "Seph? ... Thanks." Sincere as it was, it also sounded like the most anyone was likely to get out of her for a while.

Lazily combines lame tags

[creepy-son-of-a.livejournal.com]

He just nodded in acknowledgment before heading into the cave. She'd be fine for now. He didn't have time to think otherwise.

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Meanwhile, Aria had gotten to the room at the end of the tunnel... and it struck her that she didn't know what kind of injuries Mabry had. The most she could tell from looking was that she was bleeding from a chest wound.

"How bad is it?" she asked, kneeling next to the injured woman. "...And don't talk more than you have to."

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[belegwen.livejournal.com]

"Not too bad . . . anymore," Mabry's voice was soft and labored. "She got . . . a lung . . . but Song . . . healed . . . it some."

More combined tagging... braaaaaiiiiinsssss

[ariakitsune.livejournal.com]

"Okay, Seph will be here soon. There's no way dragging you through that tunnel would be healthy." Aria was rambling just a bit from nervousness. Being quiet just seemed awkward for some reason.

"I'll just cast some Cura while we wait." At least if she were concentrating on the spell she wouldn't be worrying herself sick.

And Seph must have gotten through the tunnel pretty quick because he was there almost as soon as the light from the first Cura faded. He'd heard them talking so, he didn't have to ask about the injury.

Without a word he opened a Corridor to the outside and carefully picked Mabry up off the floor.