08-28-05 1

Characters involved: Keita & Dosu.

Salamandastron: Infirmary

"... Yes." Keita, the good old tavern hare, is standing of her own volition. Well, there's the crutch, and she's leaning rather precariously on it, but she's up, not more than a foot from her cot. "... /Yes/." The crutch shakes and wobbles a little bit and her fingers splay out, as if that will provide better balance, and she stiffens. And doesn't fall.

A light tap is heard from the door, identical in every way from the one the past day.

Keita doesn't dare turn or even twitch an ear at the tap. "... C'min?" Wobble-wobble. "C'mon, steady..."

Dosu slolwy opens the door. Walking through, he catches sight of the leaning and wobbling Keita. He just stands there with arms crossed over his chest. "...You know you shouldn't be doing that, Keita..."

Keita bares her teeth in a triumphant grin as her gaze shifts to Dosu, and she wobble-wobbles in response. "I-" Breathe. "Don' care. What." Breathe. "They say."

Dosu grins lightly as he slowly walks over to her side, wraping an arm around her back to her opposite shoulder to help ballance her out. "...I know you don't... But its better to be safe than sorry, you know...."

Keita nearly flings her arm around Dosu's neck, grateful especially considering the fact that she hadn't yet figured out how she was going to get herself back down. "Shouldn't be this bloody hard t' stand... t' stand /up/." She laughs, if a bit gaspingly. "Help me down?"

Dosu grins lightly, giving a silent nod as they both slowly and carefully make their way back to the cot. He then slowly eases to to sit down along with Keita at his side.

Keita seats herself as gently as she can manage, which isn't very. She grits her teeth, but nonetheless still barks out a laugh as she collapses back onto the cot, chest heaving and her arms spread out above her head. Success! "... Agh. Thanks."

Dosu looks back over his shoulder down to Keita, a light grin on his face. "...Yea, don't worry about it..."

Keita brings one of her arms up and around to slap/pat Dosu's back, the nearest thing she can reach. "No, really. Drinks. Fer life. All yers." She grins and drops her paw back onto her stomach, staring up at the ceiling.

Dosu chuckles lightly as he leans back his head to stare off at the ceiling aswell. "...That sounds nice..."

Keita nods and slowly pushes herself up into a sitting position, one paw rubbing at her leg. "Yeah." She makes a face, and over at Dosu she glances. "Ya have a way of bein' around when yer needed, doncha?" Snerk.

Dosu chocks his head back and to the side to look at Keita. "...That I do, so don't be complainin....", he says with a grin.

Keita holds up a paw in a mock fending off gesture. "Ya definitely won't see me complainin' about it any time soon..."

Dosu chuckles lightly as he looks back to the ceiling. "...So.. When do you expect to be back up and hopping around...?"

Keita shrugs uncertainly and returns to rubbing her leg. "Gotta work on gettin' m' strength back up, 'specially in my arms. Soonah I do that, the soonah I'll be 'up 'n' hoppin' around'." She hehs, lightly.

Dosu sighs lightly as he looks down to the floor. "...Yea...". Though a faint grin slowly slides acrost his face. "...Well knowing you, Keita. It'll be no time at all..."

Keita's ears dip slightly at Dosu's sigh, but they perk back up at the grin. "That's just righ', Dosu. So doncha worry 'bout me, eh?"

Dosu grins lightly. "...Well with the way you act, I'm always worryin about you...", he chuckles.

Keita laughs, rolling her eyes to the ceiling. "Yeah, well. Ya came int' things at... an odd time in m'life." Hee. That's putting it lightly. She delivers a pat to the marten's shoulder and then shifts slightly, moving herself to the head of her cot. Ahhhh.

Dosu looks back down to Keita. "...Your needin your rest, eh...? Shall I go...?"

Keita looks a little hesitant to admit it, but in the end she nods. "... Yeah, s'pose I ought t' get m'rest."

Dosu nods lightly as he slowly pushing himself back up onto his footpaws and makes his way over to the doorway. "...AS I thought... I shall be back some time tomorrow...."

Keita watches Dosu as he moves to the door and when he reaches it, she nods. "I'll try not t' cause ya any more worry 'tween now 'n' then." She winks, resting back and settling in for some zzz's.

Dosu chuckles lightly as he slowly disapears out through the doorway. Off to where ever it is that he goes when alone.