respite (ECHOES)
Oct 10, 2014 21:12:32 GMT -5
Post by shrimp on Oct 10, 2014 21:12:32 GMT -5
G A L A X Y
We're dragging at this point and Tauankia's a lot heavier than he looks - I'm honestly just glad to see him alive.
This backpack's weighing me down. His backpack's weighing me down. We need to stop. Slowly I guide us towards a wall far from the Cornucopia, still glinting ever so faintly with the sound of clashing blades. Who knows when they will come for us? But we need Val, we need Kendrick. We need help.
I'm just a girl from six who spent too much time looking up; I can't do this. But I can't let Tauankia know. Then there's absolutely no chance of either of us getting out of this dark, cavernous lair (not like there's much of a chance of us getting out in the first place, but cest la vie. Especially the vie part of it).
I gently prop Tau against a wall and start tending to his wounds the only way I know how. He's got some cuts and bruises and it's clear that we're going to have to work on something for his knee but I'm not prepared for this I didn't listen that much in school and how can I even remember it all I barely even remember my childhood.
Nope. Stop. Focus. I can do this. Right? Yeah, I got this in the bag.
It's once that I'm in the middle of tending to Tauankia that the parcels float down - I barely notice them in the dim light but once I do I'm opening them as quick as lightning. There's a syringe with what I can only assume to be morphling of some kind and I'm about to prepare to inject it when I actually see the label. Antivenom. Oh shit that would have been bad.
The second gift is large, and when I finally pull it out my eyes widen.
A swORD?
Why would someone get me a sword?
Why would someone want to get me a sword?
Who here thinks that I have even the slightest chance of getting out of here 'cause it sure as hell ain't me.
But frankly, screw it. It's mine now, and it's much easier to protect myself with a sword than to smash someone (or something) over the head with a club. But with nothing else to do and with no extra supplies to help Tau, I've done all I can.
Now we can only hope for the others.