TheCheshire

The Gift of the Gods

Alura was a tall young woman, but she actually had to look up slightly to look at him. She smiled to him as they started strolling through the forest. "I'm not native to these forest, so I don't quite know what they might have growing about here. What I'm looking for mostly though is called 'cat's velvet'. It's an off-white colored plant, they're shaped like a cat's ear. It's very good for infections. This would be one of the most useful things. I could use it to brew teas, or create a topical with it." She said as she crouched down beside a bush and pushed back it's branches. She saw a small array of red flowers and very tenderly picked them at the roots.

"There was a dark Elven man I came across a few months back. He called these 'red dreams', he used them as poison. He took many of them, crushed them until there was nothing left but a fine paste, and coated his weapons in them. They cause the one you inflict the pain upon to go into vivid hallucinations and become so wrapped up in them, and afraid that their hearts beat themselves out. He taught me how to make such a poison." Alura said as she gently tucked them into one of her pouches. She stood back up and moved slowly across, plucking herbs here and there. When she found a berry bush, she plucked a few and popped one into her mouth. With a smile she held a few out to Rhovanor.

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Alura had been right on Rilden and Rhovanor's heels as they rushed from the bar. When the trembling had started, she had almost been thrown from her chair by how sudden it had came on. She was a few paces away from the men when she hear Rilden speak. She nodded in agreement, as well, as he stated they would need to meet in the barn later tonight.

"I think until than, gentleman, I'll go collect some herbs and plants. My stocks are running quite low, as of late." Alura said as she smiled at the two men and turned to walk off down the path towards the forest where it was thickest. Before she entered the foliage completely though, Alura stopped and looked back to the men.

"Rhovanor, would you like to escort me, perhaps?" Alura asked, a smile gracing her lips as she awaited the elven man's response.

The Day The Earth Fell

Ravenia smiled at the tender touches and words Tobias left her with. She made it through the two more minutes of the freezing water before she shut it off. The water felt good on her burns, but after a minute it started hurt the rest of her body. Wringing her waist-length hair out as best as she could, Ravenia ended up braiding it temporarily to keep her damp hair confined. Drying herself off tenderly, being sure to pat the area around her burns, Ravenia quickly dressed in Tobias's clothes. They were too big for her, but she didn't mind the baggy. The over size gave her wounds some air and didn't irritate them as bad. Butting the shirt up, leave just the top few buttons undone of course, Ravenia let it hang loose over the top of the pants. She synched the pants up tight about her waist, and tucked the bottoms of them into the top of her boots. Like hell she'd get rid of those. It was so hard finding shoes that fit a six foot woman. To give herself a bit of a more presentable look, she took the belt from her previous pair of pants and wrapped it around her upper torso. She knotted the remaining length up about her, giving her a bit of a more kept look. Surveying her work in the mirror, Ravenia nodded her head as she button up her sleeves. It looked like she had actually meant to dress like this.

Giving her hair one good more ring out, Ravenia walked around the corner and saw Tobias waiting on her. She smiled and plopped down in a chair before him. "Tell me. Doc, what's the damage? I got a lot to do after we get this stuff slapped on." She pulled up the side of her shirt to survey the burn on her side, there was a good possibility it would scar. "I need to check out the wall. I have to stop by and check both the kids out and the brute of a man in the other room. I have to check in on Shay and Clo, and also Jacob now." Ravenia muttered, verbally ticking off her list of things to do now. "My, a Mother's work is never done." She said, laughing as she smiled back up at Tobias.

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@Blox: Yes, early evening.
And what I've decided, is that there are houses are just randomly placed through the Paradise Lands. There's not just a designated area.
There's going to be shops and a marketplace for people to buy, sell, and trade and everything like that.

The houses are built out of the old houses that used to be there before the war, they've been rebuilt using what resources they had or newer houses were erected over time.

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Lol! This is going to be a shit storm when he decides to show up.
xD

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Lol. Let's go with that she wasnt made aware of him leaving.
So he totally doesn't know that Ravenia is Mother now does he?

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Lol! Shhh, only for a minute.
Hey, something about playing around in the middle of a zombie attack gives a girl a thrill.

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In my defense, she's not mad at Jacob because she's hurt. She's not mad at him at all.
She's just annoyed that he thought she was playing around.

Guuuuys, No hate mothuuuuur.
:'(

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Ravenia's breath hitched in her throat as she felt her feet swept out from beneath her. She laughed at the fact that he was carrying her. "Well, I'm not so much mad as I am embarrassed. I'm fine Tobias, I can walk, I'm just tired is all." But she didn't fight him. She had phased far too much today, it didn't help that she had even phased Tobias and Shay earlier. Ravenia knew the risks of phasing, she had almost been lost in the darkness once but had managed to pull herself out. She had been critically injured at that time, however. The only reason she had been able to pull herself from the shadows was when she heard her father calling to her; of course, he had been dead but he had been her guiding light. Ravenia chalked that up to her blood loss and being delirious.

Cradling her wounded arm against her chest, Ravenia felt just how tired she was at that moment when she had been allowed a moment's of rest and her adrenaline had stopped coursing. For a moment she allowed her head to rest on Tobias's chest and her eyes to slide shut. She rested there for a good few seconds before she regained her composure. She needed to withhold some type of decency as Mother as she was going to be carried in through the gates. Admittedly, she had not been the first Mother ever wounded in battle, or the first one to be carried home, but it still wasn't a very good thing to see. It caused people to go into a panic seeing their leader in a weakened state. Clearing her throat, Ravenia called out in her best 'Motherly voice'.

"OPEN THE GATES!" Her voice was loud and crisp, carrying across the distance. She knew somebody would hear her, she just hoped they were able to operate the manual switch. Ravenia figured Marcus was off to see Shay, she couldn't blame him. She knew what it was like to worry about somebody you cared about. Ravenia looked up to Tobias at that moment, seeing the worried look on his face as he focused on the gates. She leaned up slightly, cupped the side of his face using her good hand and placed a kiss against the side of his throat. "Thank you." She said and leaned back again, looking towards the Gates.

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Lmao. That entrance was hilarious, Twilight.