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Help To Move On from The Past And Find The Light

************Gorvenalus helps Taran in this log....part of this was done ealier and then was finsihed, ICLY  it happen right before

http://forum.rwmuck.org/viewtopic.php?id=1162

Also as a request listen to this as read log  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq3EKVxYtpk
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Who:

Gorvenalus- Redwall Abbey Recorder

Hawkeye- Retired Warrior, Tavern Worker

Taran- Cook and Guard at Camp Willow

=In the Flashback part ==

Sereia-Taran's Birth Mother

Jak-Taran Birth Father

Taran-As a dibbun
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Log:

Hawkeye said he wouldnt go on the trip, but he still wanted to make a quick visit to Camp Willow, just a quick one and he left the gatekeeper and he let his son know not to worry, he would be back in a couple days.
   
Baxtor was bored, very bored as guard duty was just that, boring but still neeed.He seen the otter and looked to Taran"Anyone ya know?"   

Taran still had a bandage, hidden under his tunic but he could still do guard duty, and today he voleteered.He hmms and smiles as he sees "Uncle Hawkeye" And quickly goes to greet the older otter with a hug.   

Gorvenalus slipped off from elsewhere when he had seen Hawkeye and walked towards the two as he cleans off his glasses."Still unwise to go on ones own"
   
Hawkeye smiles and hugs Taran, he glaces at Gorvenalus and chuckles "I am fine and was once a warrior, wanted to check on Taran and then planed on heading back"   

Baxtor says, "I didn't know ya had an uncle outside of the camp"
   
Taran smiles "Yep...he sort of lives in Ferravale and helps out at the abbey."   

Gorvenalus smiles "So I heard but even retired warriors should be careful."
   
Hawkeye says, "I use to live in a den close to camp, then went to Halyard for a long while and just recently came back to Mossflower after...well a long while.I wasnt here when those vikings came those seasons ago, I..well almost was"
   
Baxtor frowns "Yeah..that was a bit...it was bad.I happen to be out in the woods and seen smoke so rushed back...seen a lot of vermin so went to the abbey and thats where some of the otters were.We got the camp back of course..well duhhhhh..and..yeah"   

Taran frowns, he remembers bits and pieces of that ay, or was it night? He sits down on an old stump and just frowns like he has some sort of headache or something.   

Hawkeye walks over to Taran and lays a paw on his shoulder "Its..ok "Yeah change the subject"So..its sunny today that's good, any plans or just guard duty?"
   
Baxtor shrugs "I don't know..some otters were gonna go look for plants I think."   

Taran jumps slightly at the paw and then when he notices its just his Uncle and he is by the river and oh..yeah it is sunny huh, he manages a small smile "Yeah, sunny days are good and it will be a better day."He stands from where he was sitting "And yeah was gonna try and find some hot root plants, well if we can..I looked a little by my old home and none was there but there is some other places."

Hawkeye smiles at Taran,"Well looking for plants will be a good idea, shall we go then"   

Taran nods as he stands tall and then looks down river "I....that is after lunch." He frowns "I need to do something or I am..never gonna feel at home in Camp Willow"   

Gorvenalus walks closer "Do what young one?"   

Hawkeye is a little curious as well "I mean...a short walk be ok but do what Taran?"
   
Taran looks between them and just walks down stream to a little area and looks around,"She...left me...."He finds the path after some looking, even more overgrown with weeds, yet the hollow tree stump was still there..."Here...then she ran back to draw away and vikings and she never came back, there was a lot of noise and..sounds..."He closed his eyes and whimpers, and just sits down beside the tree stump drawing his knees to his chest.   

Gorvenalus watches and motions for Hawkeye to stay put as he walks over to where Taran is and kneels down in front of him "Taran...this may sound bad at first but maybe just..think back, remember...mediate, it will help, to get past this perhaps"   

Hawkeye sighs but nods an ok   

Taran looks up and blinks "How..I don't..I don't understand sir...its when...though not really a part I remember, all the way but ever so often I do, parts of it and sometimes I think maybe just not stay here, stay at the abbey....be a novice, an..order beast but Camp Willow is my home and I am a cook and a guard and..I"He frowns and sighs "I don't know wot to do."He will try to mediate though, can't hurt right?
   
Gorvenalus stays close bye and studies the otter"Let past memories come back to you, fighting with them only causes uncerntainty to build. I once had to fight with memories of a past I...feared, I had much pain, regret...but I let it go and found a peace of mind and it helped me move on"   

Hawkeye listens a little as well and decides to stay close buy lets the beaver help Taran for now, he frowns as he has an idea what is upsetting the young otter and sadly he was not there to help, then again it likely saved his life not being there for Taran, but still.
   
Taran frowns as he nods and breaths deeply and exhales, he frowns but then just relaxes and listens to the river nearby and lets his memories play out.....He was maybe barely a couple seasons old and his mother was getting ready to leave, for Halyard. .......   

**************START TO A FLASHBACK *************************   

Sereia made sure the young otter dibbun held her paw as she looked at Jak, "I am ready....we can go now."   

Jak noded "If thats what you want love...then..."But a sound and voices as he frowns and walks a little closer and it's seen...something called vikings, in long boats and dressed in furs, armed to the teeth, and the fired tiped arrows, soon the screams and the panic as the attack happen...many were already dead in less than half an hour before he got a chance to get a fair distance, he frowned "Take him....run!"   

Taran whimpers but he was picked up by his mother as she ran and refushed to look back on chaos, she somehow managed to avoid capture, even putting a dagger in one beast throat and getting to a side path with her young dibbun and laying him down in a hollowed out old tree trunk.   

Sereia makes shh noises and smiles down at him, a look to a glow coming closer she quickly broke off some branches and laid them over the top of the trunk and grabed the blanket she wraped it around a cloak she hurryly took off, it appeared to be a wraped up dibbun and she purposely run back to the river edge and down stream, but she trip and she was killed, 3 spears sank into the wraped cloak and blanket, if someone was inside they would of died...lucky it was but bundled up cloth, but she had tricked them and her last thoughts before slipping into the dark forest was he was safe, he would....live....
   
Taran whimpers, he is soon found by an very old river vole, who was injuried from the vikings and was only alive as she was passed out, she managed to survive and hid him for two days, got him safe to Redwall where she died of infection, but the young otter was safe and now at Redwall..in the care of one Papa Oz....till one day the otter would...remember.   

************************* END FLASHBACK ***********************   

Hawkeye disliked waiting, he dislike seeing his nephew crying and the whimpers got to him as he looked at Gorvenalus "This was bad advice, why have him even..think on such things?"   

Gorvenalus speaks "It is not good to hold in pain and suffering, sometimes remembering what one has forgotten of their past, is the only way to make sure the future can be have its light in the darkness"   

Taran slowly opens his eyes and has tears under his eyes but he slowly smiles as he looks over at them and wipes his eyes "Hey....." He says softly.   

Hawkeye goes over to Taran "Are...you ok?"   

Gorvenalus looks over and smiles, he has a feeling the otter will be ok now "I should get back to Benar and them, they may worry...I will see you later when the abbots group gets to Camp Willow"
   
Taran hugs Hawkeye "Yeah...lets go find some hot root plants..."   

Hawkeye returns the hug "Sure..why not, might be good to help the camp"
   
Gorvenalus meanwhile gets back to the abbot and the others, he can check on them later on.

Last edited by oz (2019-05-09 08:00:53 PM)

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Oz-  Badger-young adult-Wanderer