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MADAME XANADU // n i m u e (i_look) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2009-04-06 16:20:00

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blind seer, charlie crews, firekeeper, madame xanadu, ted earley

Blind Seer meets blind seer [Firekeeper, Charlie, Ted?]
Xanadu fell asleep on Ted's bed and lay there for nearly a day. It felt safe and warm and she was loathe to leave it. She'd tried to feel her way toward a washroom but exhausted, tired and still hurt the blind seer refrained. The wounded slyph chose her steps carefully out of the bedroom and using the bannister as a guide, slowly took the steps down into the main entry way.

"Hello, Ted?"

Not unlike a hangover, Xanadu's head pounded from dehydration. She felt ill wanted to attempt drinking and perhaps eating something. The seer did not feel hungry, but she had stopped feeling the desire for food a week into her torture. She must have looked like a wreck. Her hair was matted in some places and she was still covered in green and purple bruises, slow to heal, dried blood and other cuts and marks decorating her body like a voodoo doll.

She couldn't wait to step into a shower, wear fresh clothes and feel normal again. The fate of the shop was far from the soothsayer's mind. For now she was safe. The doppelganger would be dealt with later and by someone else.

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i_look
2009-04-06 08:31 pm UTC (link)

Xanadu's eyelids squeezed shut and she pinched the bridge of her nose to clear her head for a moment as she was approached by multiple concerned voices.

She answered Charlie and Ted's voices first:

"Ted saved me from a doppelganger. I have a headache; I just need something to drink, something clean to change into and someone to help me find my way around the shower?"

The new voice she answered second:

"I don't think there's any immediate danger."

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i_zen
2009-04-06 08:52 pm UTC (link)

Charlie stared at Ted for a moment, not in disbelief that the man could save someone but in pride. Ted really was a good guy, now maybe he'd see it for himself.

"Ted, get Xanadu some water and aspirin." He wasn't up to giving the woman a stiff drink even though she might feel like she could use it. A beer was sounding good to him. "Xanadu, the other woman in the room is Firekeeper. And there's a wolf named Blind Seer." He couldn't help the smirk; now that was truly an interesting moment - introducing one blind seer (or see-er) to another.

"They live here. Do you live here? Ted, does she live here? It's okay if you do; we have a lot of rooms, but no furniture. We need to get more beds if we're going to have more guests. Or house mates." Charlie nodded, not that he had the money anymore to purchase the needed furniture.

"Firekeeper's a good young woman, I'm sure of it. So, she could help you around the shower," Charlie didn't want to suggest that he or Ted could help out in the shower. It wasn't that he wouldn't, and he highly doubted Ted would feel comfortable with it; but, he thought it might be better left to another woman. Maybe. Reese wouldn't have helped out, or maybe she would have. He frowned slightly at not being able to call her up and ask her. He'd call Jennifer later to see if she'd help.

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i_worknumbers
2009-04-06 09:20 pm UTC (link)

Ted moved quickly to the kitchen to get the items. He didn't feel that anybody was in any immediate danger, either. He'd worried for a while that maybe somebody had followed him from the shop, but when nobody came storming up to the door demanding the hostage back, he figured they were in the clear.

"She can live here if she wants. We hadn't discussed it. I figured I'd give her a few days to feel human again before I offered anything up like that." He carefully guided Xanadu's hand to the glass and put the aspirin in her palm.

Their living situation was getting mildly complicated at best. He'd have to talk to Charlie about all of this later. Figure out what they were going to do. How they were going to arrange all of this.

He was quite glad when Charlie offered up Firekeeper and not him for the job of helping out Xanadu. Ted didn't think he could handle that.

"I should have thought of finding you a change of clothes, too. You don't really have anything here to change into."

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i_howl
2009-04-06 09:57 pm UTC (link)

"Can borrow something of mine," Firekeeper offered. She was taller than Xanadu, but it wasn't by terribly much. "Will help. Blind Seer can guard." She had experience in this sort of thing, between Derian and Wendee Jay assisting her back home.

Blind Seer barked his agreement, nodding for the benefit of the sighted humans.

Not for the first time since arriving, Firekeeper wished that Doc was here. His healing talents had saved her from wounds that should have killed her before, and even saved the heirs of two kingdoms from a poison that by rights should have been fatal. Most of Xanadu's bruises and wounds would be gone or on their way to complete healing in no time were he present. She tried to remember what field medicine he had taught her. "Soak in willow? Maybe?"

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i_look
2009-04-06 10:18 pm UTC (link)

"Thank you." Xanadu took the glass of water that was placed in her hand as soon as she swallowed the aspirin. She drank deeply from the glass before putting it back in Ted's hand. Her hands remained clasped there quietly for a few moments before reaching forward from where Firekeeper's voice had come.

"That would be nice. Unfortunately we'll have to make due with modern medicine for the time being," she smiled at Firekeeper.

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i_zen
2009-04-06 10:25 pm UTC (link)

"Modern." Charlie didn't see aspirin as modern, but he supposed it was relative. He gently guided Xanadu to Firekeeper without actually walking her over. As soon as she was out of arms' reach he'd let her go on her own.

"I'm hungry. Ted? Maybe we should get food." He stepped around the women, pausing long enough to reach a hand out to the wolf. "What do wolves eat? Think we could get deliveries from the butcher?" He guessed anything could be delivered with the right price.

"Chinese? Indian? Ted?" It wasn't that he had forgotten about Xanadu, but he was trying to find the peace that was just out of reach. He needed to do something other than looking at her.

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i_worknumbers
2009-04-06 10:38 pm UTC (link)

It was strange to be taking care of somebody again. He'd done it long ago, what felt like hundreds of years. He'd had a family. A real one. With a wife, and daughters. But then he'd messed it all up and got sent to prison.

"Meat sounds like something a wolf would eat. But we could ask him. He's pretty good at communication, actually."

He looked at the wolf again, finding himself less startled than previously about it's presence in the house. It was just another one of the people, now. He supposed that having the ability to communicate did that.

"Why don't we go for something simple?" He looked back at Charlie. "Pizza is safe and inexpensive and we can get a lot of different kinds in case we hit on something somebody doesn't particularly like."

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i_howl
2009-04-06 10:45 pm UTC (link)

"Tell them that I am not hungry. In the future, if I am unable to hunt for myself, meat is fine."

Firekeeper relayed Blind Seer's message to them. "Does not matter what kind of meat," she added. "So long as not rotten."

She bounded off to the room that she had been occupying on the occasions that she came inside. She had folded up a small collection of clothes in the corner: the stained leathers that she had arrived in, two sets of trousers, both cut off just below her knees, two button-up shirts in a material that seemed to be of much the same thickness and weave as the trousers, and one thick, long-sleeved blouse. She carried all save the leathers back to Xanadu. "Can choose what you like. All clean." She quirked up one corner of her mouth. "No shoes, though. Not wear. And I do not think would fit you."

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	i_look 2009-04-09 11:38 am UTC (link)
	Before Ted could get too far from her, Xanadu caught him by the arm and planted a small kiss on his cheek. She turned to where Charlie had been to hold and reassure her and gave him the second small show of her gratitude. "Thank you both." Turning to Firekeeper's direction, she smiled. "I'm sure it'll be just fine. Why don't you show me where I'm going?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

i_howl
2009-04-15 02:10 pm UTC (link)

((Sorry for the delay!))

"Here," Firekeeper said, holding out an arm just in case Xanadu wanted the extra support. She tried to keep her voice calm, but there was still the hint of a tense growl under the word. Blind Seer, for his part, gently bumped himself against Xanadu. He was about the right height to act as a good support; Firekeeper had done it often enough in the past few years, much to both of their consternation.

She was still wound up tight as a bowstring. Torture was not a thing that wolves did. It made her think of cats, and watching a lynx bat around a screaming, bleeding rabbit when she was very young. She had seen humans do similar things to each other since--Citrine Shield's missing fingers swam to mind, as did the girl's mad laugh.

Blind Seer snuffled, his tongue lolling out, and Firekeeper had to laugh. "He say, if you want, can ride."

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