"Cera! Why did you do that? What's happened to you?"

Redwall Abbey: Path beside Great Hall

Cera the ferret. Lee the otter. DoraRose the mouse. Zork the badger. Chud the otter.

Zork walks towards the great hall, he has soot all over him and his older tunic and pants he uses for when working, he stretches as he walks.

Lee waves with his free paw. "Ello Zork."

Chud walks into the area dragging Leon with him. He walks into the Abbey and returns several minutes later, dusting his paws off, sans Leon. He shakes his head a bit, causing his fur to ruffle, and yawns, stretching.

DoraRose stopped by the gatehouse to drop off her weapons, and now hurries to meet Lee and Chud. She slows as she spots Zork and waves to him, her usual sunny smile absent.

Zork looks at the beasts and blinks "Ummm, what be happenin' now guys..ya not smileing?" He looks at Dorarose and grins, "I could turn ya upside down but ye get forge dust all over ya pretty fur."

Lee still has his sword. "Leon was attacked, Zork."

Chud stretches, saying cynically, "Just another day in Mossflower, eh?" He laughs mirthlessly, darkness and cynicism apparent in his every move now. Where'd the jovial, cocky otter lad from earlier go?

DoraRose smiles slightly. "He was attacked. I'm worried about the creature who did it. Leon told me he should get better quickly." She glances at Chud, then sighs. It is very easy to be cynical, sometimes.

Zork frowns, "Attcked? Hey I can go find this beast and make em' pay, ya want me too lass? Why worry bout de creture who did this? I can show them a close up of me blade"

Lee asks, "Er name be Sara? Cera? Somethin' like that, i think."

"Aye, a ferret she be," Chud says. "I have nothing against vermin, but vermin bandits..." He growls, "I can't stand."

Zork tilts his head, " Name sounds familar...why do it sound familar for?" He tries to think really hard and frowns.

DoraRose sighs. "Cera. She used ot be Leon apprentice of sorts. Oh, please don't hurt her! She's just....troubled, I think."

Lee shrugs, putting his sword away. "I dunno, Leon said somethin' 'bout her bein' from 'ere."

Chud grimaces and does a quick twist of his neck, and the bones pop audibly. "Arrh, that's better," he sighs. He takes out his wood in an effort to calm down and begins carving, but it's apparent that due to his frustration he can't get anything right.

Lee sighs. "I'm gonna have ta lie to Stream'eart again tonight...I dont want 'er ta know I been tanglin' wi' vermin."

DoraRose sighs yet again and sits down, leaning against a tree trunk. "I wish I knew what to do..." she murmers, mostly to herself. She watches the leaves and the grass move in the slight breeze as she thinks.

Chud growls and chucks a stone from his pouch against a tree, THUNK! He snarls in frustration, an ugly look creasing his young features as he shoves his knife and his wood into his belt pouch, giving up for now.

Lee glances over. "Aye, Mate, ye don't need ta let yerself be upset."

"I'll be upset if I want to be," Chud mutters as he stalks out the Abbey gates for parts unknown.

DoraRose sighs and shakes her head. "This doesn't bode well. I wonder why he's so upset?" Oct 9, 2013 at 1 p.m.

Lee shrugs. "There ain't no tellin', marm."

Zork has been quiet, "So..if I be findin' Cera..wot do I do?"

DoraRose shrugs. "Try to talk to her. Warn her. Tell her that I am worried about her, and that Leon and I told you to not kill her. I don't know if she'll listen, but it's worth a shot. But you don't have to hunt her down, " she quickly adds.

Zork starta to speak and nods "Yeah I got a forge ta fix anyways."

DoraRose stands and heads to the entryway. "I'm going for a walk. I...need to think." she stops by the gatehouse to get her sword, then heads out the main gates....

Lee stands. "Marm, I will go with ye if ye'll let me?"

Dirt Road, to the north of Redwall...

Cera is sitting under a tree munching an apple as she moves some headfur from her eyes, she takes a drink from a flask she has beside her, ale or water its hard to tell what it is, she looks up every so often to see if any beasts are nearby but for the most part id relaxed.

Lee arrives from the Abbey. He spots the ferret, so this time He doesn't draw his sword.

DoraRose has also been walking along the road, her brow furrowed with thought. She, too, spots the ferret, but she doesn't draw her sword. "Cera? Is that you?"

Cera looks up, a paw goes on her whip as she stares at them, she tosses the apple core and climbs into the tree she was leaning on and looks down.

Lee looks up into the tree. "Now wot did ye do that for?"

DoraRose comes up under the tree and looks up at the ferret, thinly veiled concern showing on her face. "Cera? I don't want to hurt you, nor do I want to fight you. That's a lovely earring. Good for a lovely maiden, yes?"

Cera stays up in her tree, she lets go of the whip and glares down, "Yeah..right. Already had a bad day."

Lee asks, "Lissen, Miss, remember that gold from earlier? There be more where that came from."

DoraRose frowns. "Yes, I noticed that you had harmed my husband." Oo! Did Cera know that fact? "Why did you do that? What's happened to you? I miss the shy little maid that was so fascinated with healing. Where did she go?"

Lee lies boldly. "Aye...Leon...'e up n' died. It were an', wot they call it? An allergic reaction..."

Cera draws out a dagger and looks ready to flick it at the maid, she only had one of the darts for her blow gun thing and the rest, well they wouldnt be good to have hit anyone, she lowers the dagger, "Leave" she says loudly. She glares, ok dagger is flicked at Lee!

Lee takes the dagger in his left shoulder...again.

DoraRose looks hurt, then gasps as the ferret throws her dagger. "Cera! Why did you do that? What's happened to you? Not only have you lost your stutter, you've lost your innocence. Don't you realize that I care? That I'm trying to help you?"

Cera is clearly peeved and jumps from the tree and places a dart in the blow pipe and looks like she starts to fire it, she seems to rethink and puts it away, "The otter peeved me off and h..had the stutter when was a dibbun and couldnt talk right"

Lee is on the ground, groaning

DoraRose looks steadily into the ferrets' eyes. "You could talk right. You weren't the one with the problem. The ones who were making fun of you were the ones with the problem. And Lee was trying to talk you down. I am trying to be honest. I care about you, Cera. I wish you had stayed to meet Leon's and my Dibbuns. I think you would like them."

Cera glares, wait the otter lied now she is more peeved, she glares at Lee and Dorarose, she looks down as dibbuns are mentioned.

Lee reaches over with his right paw and, gritting his teeth, yanks the dagger out, tossing it aside as blood stains the bandages he already had on his left arm and shoulder. "Yer not a bad beast, really, just come down, an' all will be forgiven..."

DoraRose smiles sadly. "I have forgiven you, Cera. I'm going to help Lee get to the Abbey. Even if you don't trust anyone else there, I hope you will come visit me and my family. I will wait for your visit." She bends down to help the otter stand up and slowly make their way to the Abbey....assuming he'll let her.

Lee is helped up

Cera hmmphs loudly, she walks on up the road, "Bye, going t..ta the gull"

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