Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

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Re: Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

Post by Craig » October 15th, 2017, 12:10 am

Zarayne
If there was one thing Zarayne should have been good at, it would be Healing. She's spent her entire life watching her mother tend to the sick and the injured. Sometimes she would use the One Power, sometimes natural ointments and unctures. She certainly didn't have a talent for it – not in the way the Indigos used the term – but she'd been taking formal lessons from the Yellows atop what she saw her mother do.

"Yes, I can," she replied with a certainty that wasn't entirely borne from experience. She was grateful just to be away from the Trollocs, although 'away' simply meant not engaging with them directly. The defensive circle re-centred around the Commander and the Accepted as the latter drew upon all five elements of the One Power.

For flesh and bone, Earth became the foundation upon which the weave was based. Green lines wrapped around the Shienaran's upper arm, snaking like the climbing vines Zarayne had seen in the Tower's gardens. Looping around those vines were threads of Air and Spirit, interspersed evenly and equally. Separate to the mesh, the Accepted formed a ring of Fire and Water above the wound. Tugging on the threads, the mesh tightened around Marwen's upper arm and shoulder as the ring pressed into his open flesh.

It looked like it should have hurt, pressing a ring of fire into the man's arm whilst constricting the muscles with bonds of Earth. Instead it had the opposite effect. The combination of the two weaves knitted together muscle and bone whilst reattaching the severed ends of the blood vessels. There was still a lot of blood after the light of saidar faded away, but Marwen's injury was gone. All that remained was the sight of goosepimples running across his flesh.

"I think I was meant to ask permission," Zarayne mumbled as she rose back to her feet and started to form a different sort of weave.
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Re: Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

Post by Bella » October 18th, 2017, 7:28 pm

It had been a great deal of maybe and perhaps and might and if... The four of them--the grizzled old soldier, the young half-Aiel Accepted, the Green Sister, and the diminutive Gaidin--had considered the numbers and debated the possibility of if they could be victorious against them.

They had determined to be cautious, but the Wheel had woven otherwise.

And in doing so, it had turned the maybe and the perhaps and the might and the if into did. Just over a half a Fist of Trollocs lay all around them. Their blood turned the hard dirt into mud and started to let the heavy bodies sink in. Some were burnt, others slashed, and still more looking like pincushions rather than once-living beings.

Lysira stood in the center of the macabre arc. She could feel bruises rising on her cheek, and blood running down both arms from where she'd had to fight after being dismounted and running out of arrows.

At least, however, the darkness had remained contained. This time.

Lifting her dark eyes, hazy with sudden fatigue and fleeing adrenaline, she looked around to check on the others...
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Re: Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

Post by Roan » October 22nd, 2017, 4:43 pm

Tia Sedai
As the last Trolloc was felled by Lysira’s sword, Tia let go of the Source and forced herself to catch her breath. It was done, and they’d survived. Looking down at herself, Tia wore the gore of battle in the form of Trolloc blood. It wasn’t the most intense battle she’d been in, though it was in terms of odds.

Marwen was just to her left, and he was cleaning and sheathing his sword, though he was ever alert, as any soldier likely would be after such a fight. The man was covered in Trolloc blood, though she knew some of the deep red on him was his own. Zarayne had done well to heal him, but whatever energy he’d been working on would soon drain away and he’d be starving if he wasn’t already.

Turning her attention to Lysira, she couldn’t help but be impressed. The woman was a force to be reckoned with not just with her bow, but sword as well. Without her, Tia didn’t think she and the others would have survived. The Gaidin looked to be ok.

Tia looked to Zarayne, who was also covered in Trolloc blood, “Are you ok?” She was responsible for the Accepted’s safety while they were out here. She doubted Master Darrow would be at all impressed when he heard the news of this attack. She’d cross that bridge when she needed to, but for now, she wanted to make sure the young woman was ok.

She looked back to Lysira, “And you? Are you ok?”
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Re: Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

Post by Craig » October 24th, 2017, 9:10 am

Zarayne
When the dancing stopped and everyone else was putting their weapons away, Zarayne released saidar and was hit by a crushing wave of fatigue. She dropped down into a crouch, both arms resting over the top of her knees like they were a Maiden's spears. Her body wasn't stiff or sore but she did feel depleted, like an wrung-out cloth. Or maybe more like a threadbare dress, she was only just keeping herself together. It was hard to tell. Zarayne knew this was thanks to channelling so much ''saidar'' at once. Burnout had never seemed close, but she had exerting herself far beyond any previous challenge.

"I am... fine," the Aielwoman said breathily as she rose back up to her full height. She didn't add that she barely felt the presence of ''saidar''; she attributed that to expending so much of herself. Nor did she add that she would have felt more comfortable with a shoufa around her neck. That wasn't the question Tia Sedai was asking.

Zarayne kept her eyes raised high. It was impossible not to see out of the periphery of her vision the corpses of Shadowspawn, but she didn't have to look at it. The smell of Trolloc blood was thick in the air. She felt dirty just standing in this place. She could feel the putrid stench soak its way into her clothing and hair. Despite herself, she openly shuddered.
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Re: Citadel Dreams of Green [attn: Craig/Z and Bella/Lys]

Post by Bella » October 26th, 2017, 9:11 pm

After assuring the others that she was as well as could be after a fight like that, they gathered themselves up and wasted no time getting clear of the area. Just in case there were other Shadowspawn lurking around ready to find them, they wanted to be as far away from this place as they were able to be.

Once Lysira had determined they were a safe distance away, she brought them to a halt. Zarayne looked like she was about to fall out of her saddle, and Marwen didn't look much better although he was a professional at hiding it. Lysira had a discerning eye, however, and she could tell. She was sure Tia was exhausted, and she knew she was too.

So they came to a halt and all but collapsed where they stood.
* * * Once they had rested and eaten, Lysira got them on the move again. This was now more of a martial matter and the safety of the channelers was in her hands, so she was taking the lead. Unless directly counter-ordered by Tia, she would continue to do so until they were safely in the arms of the Citadel.

That time didn't come soon enough for her, but it did come. Now they could be safe and truly rest up, once they had reported what they'd found. It would be sorted out, but it need not be by them alone in that moment.

They had done enough, for now.
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