09-06-05

Characters involved: Seven, Alysari, Audri, & Taye.

Salamandastron: Infirmary

Seven immediately deposits the sliver off the the side, picking up some gauze instead, to press gently to the wound after he spreads the herb more now that the obstruction is missing. Well..Zoe always /did/ want him to be a healer. He proceeds to bandage the footpaw. "Ye alrigh'?" The runner asks sympathetically. "Ya did marvelous..very brave." He offers her the kindest smile he can give.

Alysari tries to smile, but she's still biting her lip and it comes out looking odd. She nods slowly, releasing her lip and attempting a better smile.

Seven goes to put all the unused supplies back, while depositing the sliver of wood elsewhere. "Tell me..ya hungry, then?" Everything is replaced exactly where it was before, then he moves over to the dibbun again, trying to hide the fact that he's sore and tired already.

Alysari shakes her head, then slowly points at him, and the bed next to her.

Seven gazes at her for a moment as he pauses, then smirks, shaking his head. "Kay, then." The sniper pulls himself up onto the adjacent bed, lounging here for a moment. He glances at Alys, as if expecting something else.

Audri has left.

Alysari smiles, managing better this time. "You hurt?" she asks, cute in dibbun worry.

Seven nods slowly. "Yeah..some time back, though.." The runner leans his head back onto the pillow. "..still hurts.." He half closes his eyes.

Alysari scoots down the bed towards her own pillow, eyes on the other hare. She's avoiding touching the footpaw to anything, but that's understandable. "Letcha thleep?"

Seven sighs. "Nah. Tha's fine..'m good for now." He manages a light smile. "What 'bout you?" The sniper is gazing at the ceiling.

Alysari shakes her head. "Juth woked up. Don' need thleep." She's quiet for awhile, then snuggles down into the pillow anyway, stretching her injured footpaw out. "Theven'th a funny name..." she giggles after awhile.

Seven grins more again, laughing lightly. "Yeah...i' is, isn' it?" The buck rolls over so that he is laying on his side, facing the child again, one arm dangling off the side of the bed. "My paren's are either lazy..or inventive.."

Alys' face falls at the word 'parents', and she's silent for awhile. Her eyelids droop, but she forces them open again. "No' gunna thleep..." she mutters.

Seven gazes up at her for a moment, ears tilting back, then he looks back down. "It'd help ya heal, if ye did." The buck just decides not to question her right now. Just in case he brings up something sensitive.

Two tufted ears appear at the infirmary door while Audri peeks quietly into the room. She takes a quick survey of the room, sighing when she doesn't spot whoever she's looking for.

Alysari makes a face. "Don' wanna thleep. Nobeetht gunna make me!" She seems overly adamant about this, but then realizes how forceful that was and shrinks back, expecting some kind of punishment.

Seven shrugs. "Sure thing." The runner looks up slightly as he notices movement out of the corner of his eye, half smiling a greeting to Audri before laying back down. Well /he's/ certainly not going to punish her.

Audri grins, waving when she's spotted but stays in the hallway. "'lo."

Alysari looks where Seven does, and one ear finally perks up with interest, if only for a short moment. "Hello," she whispers from her bed, eyes wide as she peers over the edge of the bed at the squirrel.

Seven rests his arms over his eyes as he shifts again onto his back. "Come join us..we're loungin'." Lazy speech.

Audri's ears pin back, noticing the leveret's reaction to her, shaking her head to the buck. "No thanks. I'm fine out here."

Alys' ears twitch. "C'm in?" she asks quietly. "Whath yer name?"

Seven lets them talk..or whatever, eyes closing once more as he rests there on the bed.

Audri looks hesitant, but steps inside, rubbing her arm idly. "'m Audri." She mumbles quietly, resting back against the wall. "How'd ya hurt yaself?"

One of Alys' ears curls around to point at herself. "Me?"

Audri nods. "Yea. I figured ya got hurt since the infirmary isn't ta much fun."

Having been walking past, the conversation drifting out into the hallway from the infirmary catches Taye's ears and so he pauses, glancing in the doorway.

"Yer tellin' me." Is all that they get out of Seven, even /if/ his opinion wasn't needed.

Alysari nods slowly, ear turning to point at her footpaw. "Go' a thplinter. Biiig thplinter."

Audri smirks, propping her leg back against the wall, paw still rubbing her arm idly. "Ooh. Well, that's a rather serious injury there. Splinters are right awful things."

Alysari frowns slightly, not sure if the older girl is teasing her. "It hurt'th."

Seven seems to have dozed off a little, arms still rested over his eyes. One ear is cocked towards the conversation, though.

Audri nods, pushing off the wall to walk over to Alysari's cot. "I'm sure it does. I had a really bad splinter once. The trick ta get it ta stop hurtin' is candy." Grinning, Audri pulls out a small bag from her pocket, holding it out for the leveret. "Ya can have this iffen ya like."

Taye watches the exchange from his vantage point in the doorway. At Audri's actions, he grins.

Alys' eyes widen considerably. "Really?" she whispers, as if the other dibbun's actions are completely incomrehensible.

Seven would state something crazy like 'candy's the devil's food', if he wasn't so out of it at the moment.

Audri nods, grinning still. "Sure. I can always get more iffen I need ta."

Alysari smile breaks out slowly, until it lights her entire face. She reaches out to take the bag, fumbling to get it open and peek inside.

Seven yawns deeply and wakes from his light doze enough to glance over to the two dibbuns, before his eyes close again and a yawn takes control, once more.

Audri steps back, watching Alysari. "Hope ya footpaw feels better." Inside the bag lies candied chestnuts and crystallized candies.

Once the exchange has taken place, Taye moves further into the room. He steps up grinningly behind Audri, then reaches out quickly to grab/poke at her sides. "Boo!"

"Aeeee!" Audri jumps a good foot off the ground, brushtail frizzing up in surprise. She quickly turns around, giving a return poke to Taye's middle. "Ya tryin' ta scare me ta death o' somethin'?"

Seven is actually startled into a sitting position by all of it, pulling his arm around his middle in response to the pain that shoots up from his wounds. "Oy! Wha's the big idea?!" Then he lays back down, rolling over so that his back faces the others.

Alysari has fallen slowly asleep, she's had a long day.

Taye laughs lightly, stepping back from Audri's poke. "Just messin'," he replies, then cranes his neck around so that he can look in Seven's direction at the rebuke. Hm.

Audri snorts, pulling her tail around in attempts to pat down the frizzed fur. "Ya could have found a way other than scarin' me ta death." She glances over at Seven before looking back to Taye. "So, how ya been?"

Taye grins down at Audri, then tilts his head down to show off his mostly-healed forehead gash... thing. It could almost be called a scar. "Think I'm gonna have a scar." Beam. "How've you been?"

Audri blinks, reaching up to touch the lingering traces of the gash. "How'd that happen? Oh, I've been okay. Just readin' up on stuff."

Taye breathes in deeply as he stands back straight. "Aw - y'know. The final battle fer Halyard. I came out mostly a'right, though. Bettah than most."

Audri nods, ears flicking back, paw rubbing her arm again. "Well, least ya came back from it in one piece. Everythin' fixed there now?"

Taye dips his head in a nod, looking pleased. "Aye, everythin's fixed. We've still got some hares we're keepin' there, t' watch ovah things fer the next bit."

Audri nods. "That's good. Might have ta go check out those stores now." Audri sighs, glancing up at his forehead again. "Ya sure ya head is a'right 'n everythin'?"

Taye rolls his eyes playfully, then reaches a paw up to poke a finger firmly at one edge of the gash. "See?" Then, he nods. "We'll have t' make a trip ovah there fer the shops. Finally." Heh.

Audri smiles faintly, stuffing her paws in her pockets. "Yea, I see. I'm just worried is all. 'n we'll definitely have ta go cause I need stuff for my boat."

Taye's eyes widen. He'd almost forgotten about that boat! "Aye, that's righ'. Well, when d'ya wanna go?"

Audri shrugs. "Whenever ya got free time. I haven't been doin' much o' nothin'."

Taye considers for a moment. "Well, I've got free time two nights from t'night, then nothin' the next mornin'. We could stay ovah night, mayhaps. Make a little trip of it."

Audri nods, grinning some. "Sounds good ta me. I can get a pack o' food together iffen ya want for the walk ta there and back."

Taye reaches out to scruff up the squirrel's headfur, then turns. "Sounds good... I've gotta get t' sentry duty, but I'll catch ya latah, a'right?" With a grin and a wave, he jogs out.