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Mother Krisha

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Registered: 2019-05-04

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A Flashback or..wot?!

WHO:

Krisha- Badger Mother

Velm- LP Hare, Healer and LT.

LOG:

About half of the abbey had some form of a pathway to another area. A path cleared in the breezeway, a path to the Gatehouse and Champion Cottage. A path was even made leading to the Rose Garden to start a search for the weather vane. Another path was also cleared..to the graveyard out of a request of the visiting hare. Some paths could still be cleared, like one to the pond was yet to be cleared, but maybe in the next few days. A path was made to the storage shed for tools and firewood if needed, some extra even was cut from a tree that fell by the abbey wall, it fell towards the woods luckily, and the wood was chopped up for firewood, as well as some for any other needs at the abbey.

Krisha walked along the path quietly, if the path was made she may as well visit a couple of graves here. One being Sister Ginny, the other Papa Oz.

Velm followed, he was in his thick winter cloak as he looked around, he walked up a path the moles had cleared leading to a large plaque of names written in fancy lettering and a design around the list, he frowned as he looked through the names.

Krisha made her way over to the hare after placing some paper flowers on the graves she visited. "Looking for a certain name?"

Velm shook his head "Not really...." He moved his finger along the names and then found his own on a small list of missing "Guess this will need ta be marked out eh wot"A small grin but still all the other names, so many familiar names and thinking back on the meeting he had with the hares of his division, he was in charge of a group of 15 hares, and all of those hares all died, all but him as he frowned more.

Krisha looked at the simple name and noded "Yes, I could easily make a covering for it."A small smile "I bet Lord Ciocan was glad to find you survived, I know...a couple of others were never found or...maybe they were?"

Velm seemed sort of tuned out somewhat, he heard the badger and nodded "Yeah...I mean" He blinked as he slipped back into the here and now"One of found and...corrected yes..another was never found...no..a Private Garrysonpond..." He then seemed to go back into his stare into space look.

Krisha watched the hare and frowned "Velm? Lt?...ummm sir hare?" She went to lay a paw on his shoulder slowly and gently as she spoke.

Velm just stood sort of looking in a daze, sort of off into space. He tenses up when the paw touches his shoulder and starts muttering words that likely make no sense or it's just soft but it makes sense to him right now as his paw tightens into a fist and he mutters more of...well it makes sense to him as mentioned before.

Krisha stays by the hare just being quiet as she knows a lot usually just wants some quiet time for a few moments.

Velm suddenly tensed up again and spun around to knock the badger down to the ground and hold his paw against her throat if he managed to get her on the ground, "Now ya surrender vermin" Yeah...he is NOT in his right mind right now, neither is the look in his eyes, it's off as if...yep he is elsewhere in his mind.

Krisha is surprised and does end up on the ground. She blinks and looks up at the hare "Velm...what is...wait I am not some vermin, you're in Redwall Abbey.."She frowns and quickly tries to think, she doesn't want to injure him unless she has to, but at the same time, she doesn't want to be injured right now.

Velm snorts "Right..Redwall that's wot we bally well are protecting."He acts as if he has his saber, and he doesn't as he speaks "De Long Patrol takes no captives in dis situation.."

Krisha frowns and goes to shove him off and finds he is fairly strong right now as she frowns, now getting a little worried.

Luckily for the Badger Mother help is here. It comes from above in the form of a dumped towel full of VERY COLD snow! Let go of by a couple sparrow.

Velm gasps and shakes his head, the cold snow, and the cold wet towel now on his head is pulled out, he then hits a patch of ice and  "WHOA!" Falls sideways off the pathway and makes a sort of hare shaped place in the snow "Wot de..s...s...seasons I'm..f...f...freezing!" He then sits up, takes one look at where the badger is and blinks slowly, and then quickly gets up, falls again, and gets up more slowly "Oh no no no...are you hurt? I..I..was not I..me." He frowned deeply as he knows he had some form of flashback...he had one before a couple times with the otter that saved him all the seasons ago.

Krisha gets up slowly and rubs her shoulder "I am..I am ok just a little sore shoulder. You were muttering and then you acted like, you thought I was someone else for a moment some reason."

Velm helped make sure she is upright and if allowed leads her back to the main building "I...am truly sorry, if tis your request I can pack and bally well go elsewhere de rest if winter"

Krisha shakes her head as he leads her inside "No, your our guest..."She sighs "You had some memory trigger of the siege is my guess. I heard of it, how some beasts have things they forget to maybe remember but in nightmares and some even...think back on a rather traumatic event in their lives if something triggers it."She frowns "I had one once too, this tribe of now dead monitors from my past..I remember a tattoo they had and after many seasons someone described seeing it and it made me remember again. It took a while to get over but I did with help from family and friends. I have comforted dibbuns and..some others of more recent events, one being the slavers that took the dibbuns for a while and there were some rats  the abbey had to deal with while everyone was gone...the rats were defeated and they left a few weeks before the dibbuns and those looking for the dibbuns returned to the abbey."

Velm sighs as he sits down, a little shaky still as he just closed his eyes "I could of...hurt ya lass, I am glad I didn't and those birds dumped de snow on me head."He opened his eyes "I keep having this..these flashbacks of the day the siege was happening, when the Long Patrol and Lord Ciocan came ta defeat that Ormaz warlord fellow, bits and pieces  and just reading the names ...brought back this rush of some of that day...not..not all but.....some"

Krisha nods and sits nearby, she then gets up and is soon back with some calming tea and a couple of scones "Here, this tea is a mix of herbs that help one to relax and the scone is apple spice"

Velm is a little shaky but does manage to sip the tea, he eats half a scone and stands up. "I..I need ta..."He sighs "I don't know.."He sounds lost, so lost."I am gonna see about finding me knapsack, I am sure tis by the wall still" He walks on outside as there is a path to the wall top steps, one just needs to be careful and his knapsack is still there,3/4 buried of course but there untouched with that metal spear he used too, with help he will get the knapsack up with some rope and someone brave enough to go don the rope, likely one of the abbey squirrels, to tie the end of the rope, or two ropes to the knapsack and then help make sure the knapsack and they are  pulled back up!

Krisha meanwhile heads back to the dibbuns, it's time for class. She will let Velm decide if he wants to talk more, she will mention how he is free to talk to the abbot as well, she will even help pull the knapsack up if asked or maybe just let others help with that task.