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

Entry tags:

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_zen
2009-04-15 03:35 am UTC (link)

"Then no naked resturants." Charlie nodded, letting that go. He didn't see any problem with Ted's nudity, but if Ted had a problem, he wouldn't push it.

"Right, and they were missing when I met her. For a little bit. She can grow them back for a time, but they don't last long. I don't know exactly why they're missing; I don't think I asked." He was trying to remember his first day in the City. He had met her then, hadn't he?

"Not planning, but I don't see why we wouldn't have a second date." Charlie smiled brightly at his friend, his very good friend. "We'll find out who did this to her, Ted."

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i_worknumbers
2009-04-15 03:40 am UTC (link)

So her eyes were always missing... wait. Charlie had just said something. "Grow them back?" Ted didn't know how that was possible. He had a much harder time grasping onto that then Batman. He wondered again if he were Robin. Or a Robin equivalent. He supposed he'd have to meet Batman and ask.

"I think it'd be a really good thing to find whoever did it. Before they try to get her back. That's what I'm most worried about. I had to get her out of there, but I keep wondering if somebody is looking for her. Mad. I didn't know there was another girl living here, or I wouldn't have... not that I would know where else to take somebody in that condition. I guess the hospital, it just didn't occur to me."

Ted thought about the date they were talking about. "You have a lot of faith that I won't goober my way through this."

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i_zen
2009-04-15 03:44 am UTC (link)

"It was some sort of potion, I think. She could do it." Charlie shrugged, having accepted that there were more things in the City and the world than he could possibly understand right away. Perhaps he'd figure them out eventually, perhaps not. He would have to be okay with whatever came; it was how one zenned.

"We will find them. But, they left her down there. Was the place unlocked?" It didn't make any sense to leave things unlocked, if Ted could get in easily..."They wouldn't leave her unguarded or able to be saved if they still wanted her. She might be lucky that she's still alive." She was actually.

"Even if you do goober your way through it, you'll do it with style." Charlie was trying to be supportive, honest.

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i_worknumbers
2009-04-15 03:48 am UTC (link)

"Huh." A potion made more sense to him than her just sort of randomly willing eyes into existence.

"Unlocked. Nobody there. Just her. Not even the door downstairs was locked." Ted realized that whoever it was might have stepped out to find something to kill her with. He felt very glad that he'd found her when he did.

"Someone's at the door." Ted turned his head in the direction of the front of the house. "Do you think the pizza could have gotten here that fast?" He looked at his watch. "That was significantly under thirty minutes."

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i_zen
2009-04-15 04:00 am UTC (link)

"They just left her there." That actually made Charlie angrier. That someone could just leave an injured suffering person, as if that person were no one, nothing, just something to leave behind. He looked up, to the side, not really focusing on anything. "She's alive, and we will find the man who did this." It was a little sexist, but why would some random woman do it?

"That is fast." Charlie followed Ted's gaze. "Always good to get fast food, unless it's not. We have any fruit? Could have that for dessert."

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