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Ayla of No People (_ayla_) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-08-09 09:53:00

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ayla, complete, day 10, yvaine

Day 10
Who: Yvaine & Ayla
What: Healing Session
When: Mid Morning
Where: Yvaine's Room
Rating: G
Status: Finished

Ayla woke early, though it was hard to tell with the storm still raging outside. Sitting up on her bed, she looked around the dark cave. Sparse light filtered in through the singular window at the back. She'd never had a window in her cave in the valley, and that was only one of the differences between this cave and that one. Still, it was more familiar than a room such as Rusty's was to her.

She crawled to the firepit where she'd banked her fire and built it up again. She needed to make some tea for Yvaine and get it to her. The dressing on her leg probably needed to be changed as well. She would prepare everything and then take it with her to the star woman's room. She boiled willow bark and snake root for the tea. Instead of the snake root going on the outside, it was going to heal from the inside.

It would still take several weeks before it was completely healed, but Ayla was sure she would be able to walk with no problems at all. As the water for the tea boiled, she cleaned herself up and put on a new wrap. Being in a cave with a fire always made her smell a little smoky. Not unpleasant, just... outdoorsy. She plaited her long blond hair back in a single braid down her back and went back for the tea.

With soaked leather, dry gauze and tea in hand, she left her room and headed to Yvaine's second story room. She shifted everything in her arms in order to knock on the door.

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fallen_star
2008-08-23 03:55 pm UTC (link)

The more Ayla detailed her explanation of the appearances of the clan of people who had taken her in, the more Yvaine remembered having seen people who were like that a very long time ago. The star happened to have an excellent memory, and she had a passion of sorts for people-watching. She also knew that history often repeated itself over the years, and some people were overly predictable. Ayla’s life with the Clan wasn’t something she hadn’t seen before, but she was extremely pleased those people had accepted the cavewoman in time, at least to some extent.

At Ayla’s reaction to the spoken thought that they hadn’t thought she would ever have a baby, Yvaine’s brows creased together in sympathy. Enough people had given birth outside, in the plain sight of the star woman’s vibrant blue eyes, for her to know about it. Her mother, the Moon, had attested to a very different way of birthing each of her daughter stars, so human births seemed very messy and strange to her. It also seemed incredibly painful, and she couldn’t fathom why anyone would want a baby until she saw the way mothers held their small bundles and looked upon their faces. The star woman once thought she might like a baby of her own, but every star in the sky was barren, unable to have children. Only the moon was capable of such a thing.

“You’ve never had a child?” She asked soflty. Yvaine looked over the slender woman, and thought it would not be impossible for her to have a child. She wasn’t so narrow hipped that a child couldn’t fit past. She’d seen smaller women give birth to large babies. Then again, she couldn’t be entirely certain as perspectives from the sky were highly different than perspectives from the ground.

“I suppose not. Life in the sky is incredibly simple, though. I had it very easy in comparison to those I’ve seen who lived on Earth. Life will probably be a bit more difficult for me, and it certainly hasn’t started off easy.” The evening star noted, motioning to her leg. “Though, it could have been worse had you not found me.”

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_ayla_
2008-08-23 11:46 pm UTC (link)

Ayla shook her head. "No, I had a child. Durc was his name." She took a deep breath. When she had explained this to Jondalar, he had been upset and called her baby an abomination. She didn't want the same reaction from Yvaine, but somehow she didn't think that she would because the woman wasn't exactly human herself. Letting the held breath out slowly, she began to explain.

"Because my totem was the Cave Bear, a man's totem, they didn't think I would ever have a child. But when my totem stopped battling, I knew I was pregnant. I was so happy that I didn't even mind what Broud was doing to me anymore. But my pregnancy was difficult. I was very ill and I bled when I shouldn't have. I had to rest a lot. My labor was also very difficult. My son was part Clan and part Others, like me. His head was very large and when I gave birth I was much younger and a little smaller."

"It took a long time, but he finally came. But, they told me he was deformed. They said he would have to die. But I couldn't let them kill him. He wasn't deformed, he was just different." Her hands moved as they had before, and she watched them idly with her head bent slightly. "I begged them to let me keep him. By then they knew I was the woman who hunts and they knew I would be able to take care of him until he was of age to be a hunter."

She paused again, and knew that she was probably giving the star woman a little more information than she bargained for, but once Ayla got going it was difficult to stop. Especially because she was telling the story to someone who could not exactly relate to it, and needed all the details to fully comprehend the story.

She smiled and nodded about the leg. If Yvaine had walked on it, or hadn't found someone who could help with her leg, she might have walked with a limp or possible pain for the rest of her life. She wondered if she was taking up too much of the star woman's time, but she was enjoying the talk, even if it was she doing all the talking.

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