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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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_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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