Callie Lenson and Seraphina Astarte
Location East Ridge Animal Hospital.
Interacting with: Xerxes Arvanitis (@YoshiSkittlez).
Leo’s gently touch, and comforting smile… It did a bit to ease Callie’s panic, but not enough. The thought of Alexis, laying there, dead constantly sent her into hysterics. She had thought they’d have been safe… had something interfered with her spells? She tried to shake her head when he placed the amulet around her neck, feeling like she didn’t deserve the lack of pain, and she began to cry softly, small sobs racking her body. She only clutched at Leo tighter as he made to go, not wanting him to leave her, afraid of what might happen.
“Listen, love, I have to go save Alexis. I’m gonna leave you with Doctor Astarte. She’s gonna help you. But I gotta go. I love you, and you’re gonna be okay” His words, she knew, where meant to be comforting, but she turned away from his touch, her tears only becoming worse. She knew that Alexis was gone, no matter what. She turned away from him, curling into herself as he walked away from her.
Maybe she deserved this, being alone, her best friend leaving her… she swallowed around a painful lump in her throat, looking to the vet, to the woman she was intruding upon, making her life harder.
Gods, she was a bad person. How many lives was Callie going to ruin?
”I’m sorry… ““..h-hush now…”Hesitating a moment as she let her gaze linger upon the woman lain over the metal table before her, Seraphina shifted slightly, her emotions running high causing her to almost miss the gentle nagging sensation coming from somewhere in the back of her mind. Someone was calling out to her… trying to connect with her; though with the situation at hand, she couldn’t tell who it was…
Feeling as though it wouldn’t necessarily make anything worse, she opened her mind to the other presence, knowing that it was a risk, but right now… her first and only priority was making sure that the woman in front of her didn’t die. Reluctance in her actions, Seraphina closed the gap between the both of them, quickly pulling a fresh pair of blue gloves from the box hanging on the wall, she pulled them on, panic behind her eyes as she began to look her over, mumbling softly to herself as though it was going to help her in some way.
“..blood in your hair… and on your face… d-do you feel dizzy- fuzzy vision..?” Leaning over her slightly, Seraphina reached out, her touch soft as she brushed the woman’s dark hair off to the side, lightly examining the wound on her head,
“..you-... y-you might have a concussion…”Had she hit her head? Callie couldn’t remember… she remembered falling to the ground, throwing her arm up, but had she hit her head? She supposed she must have, and she tried to focus enough to respond,
”I.. I don’t think so, but… I’ve been crying” She tried to throw her mind back, through the blur of the attack until now.
”Maybe a little fuzzy… “Jumping ever so slightly as the woman spoke to her, Seraphina turned her attention down to her, blinking a few times as she seemed to remember that for once, her patient was a human rather than that of an animal- this woman had a voice; she was still conscious… which meant, in a way, she could answer the questions she usually left hanging in the air for only herself to hear.
“..s-sorry… my-... my patients usually... can’t talk…”Biting down softly upon her lower lip, Seraphina awkwardly let her gaze flick about the room before she turned her attention back down, her hand retreating from the woman’s head so that she could instead look over her other wounds,
“..definitely a concussion… your-... your answer helps to prove that… u-uh… I-I’ll need to clean the b-bite that’s on your forearm… and, uh… and the other cuts you have… before any of them get infected…”Callie tried to focus, but whether it was because of the amulet Leo had forced on her, or simply because her head just didn’t want to work, she didn’t know, and she ended up just staring at Seraphina, looking down to her arm at the mention of it, where she could still feel the wolf clamping down on it, seeming to hesitate a few moments, before finally looking back up, remembering where she was.
”Okay… did… did you need me to do anything?”Shaking her head from side to side, Seraphina relaxed slightly, her head tilting lightly to the side as she looked down at the witch in front of her- this one couldn’t hurt her… at least, not while in her current state… when she began to gain her strength again, then and only then would she worry about what it was the woman might do to her.
“..just-... just relax…” Turning her back to the table, she began to rummage through the drawers, pulling out a large bag of cotton balls before she went searching for the bottle of disinfectant she had in the cabinet. This was unpleasant enough as it was when it was an animal; but a human- no… a witch..? This wasn’t something she was looking forward to. Making her way back over to the table, she opened up the bottle, and picking up one of the cotton buds, she poured some of the disinfectant onto it before she placed it down, hesitating, the now dampened cotton bud hovering just above the wound.
“..t-this is going to sting…”
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