Reviving Moledeep: Fixing Up the Infirmary and Cleaning Out the Well

Characters: Aikuen, Fira, Will

Location: Moledeep

Moledeep: Infirmary

Its now morning, and Aikuen the otter is now just beginning to wake up for the first time since the incident last night. He groans and sits up on the bed, and shakes his arm to bring life back into it. He fell asleep on it, because he was reaching out to Fira, but he doesn't quite remember that, or anything else that night. He looks around the room, and sees the potions on the floor, and the 'DO NOT TOUCH' for the green vial. He chuckles as the memories of last night begin to fill him again. He pushes the potion into the throw away pile, and begins to rub his redden eyes.

Fira is there in one of the chairs, book on her lap and still fast asleep. She finds out her fiance is in the infirmary, she obviously has to come hang about in there though soon as she figured he wasn't dying and best to just wait for it all to wear off then she just settled in. Continued working her way through the few books the place actually has until she dozed off again.

Aikuen sighs and looks around the room, and nearly scares himself silly, when he sees Fira in the chair. He chuckles to himself and slowly makes his way over to her, and sits down on the arm rest. He then places his paws behind her head, and gives her a kiss, to wake her.

Fira slightly starts to stir when he sits down, picking up on little bit of movement but it's the kiss which really wakes her up. Suddenly surprised into life and admitting a small squeak before she sees who it is and relaxes again, smirk creeping in "Well good morning to you too"

Aikuen laughs at the squeak, and says, "How is my darling doing, on this fine morning!" There still seems to a light slur to his voice, an obvious side effect to the drug from last night. He wipes his mouth, thinking there was something causing it, but there is nothing there at all. He chuckles and smiles again before asking, "Have you been hear all night?"

Fira lucky for him can't pick up on light slurs. Big heavy ones she'd probably get but if it looks like reasonable normal speech patterns then everything's fine. She continues to smirk at him as she settles back into her chair again "Heh, guess so...must have dozed off at some point. I heard you weren't well"

Aikuen grins and gives her a hug, and then leans out again, so she can see him, "Awww, you didn't have to do that, I'm fine... just a little potion that went bad... and doubled its power! Most of the effects of it has gone away, though my mouth doesn't seem to work right, at the moment" He laughs as he leans into her, "Thank you..."

Fira aims another little kiss at him just before stretching a little and resting an arm around him and finally remembering to close the book on her lap "Maybe we should just throw the lot out and get stuff we know about..." she's usually looking at his mouth anyway but this time she seems to be trying to work out what's wrong with it "...Doesn't seem to work right how?"

Aikuen nods a little, "Well most of the potions still work... I just need to be careful what I'm smelling!" He laughs, and pulls on his bottom lip, then he pulls it away so she can read him properly, "I cant feel my bottom lip! So I'm slurring my words together, since you can still read me, its properly not that bad... Does it look okay?" He sticks his bottom lip out, so she can get a better look.

Fira frowns at it slightly, watching a lot more closely when he speaks before she actually reaches out a paw to gently move the lip around "Well I don't see anything obvious...suppose it's still wearing off a bit yet. Anything else you can't feel?"

Aikuen hides a grin when the lip is moved, and when she removes her paw, he makes a small snap at it, missing on purpose. He leans back in the chair, and says, "No, not that i can tell, just me bottom lip... and its more numb then anything else, but if you say there is nothing wrong, I'm just gonna have to believe yah!" he laughs.

Fira smirks at the snap, going to give him a poke on the nose for it "If it doesn't wake up in the next hour we'll have another look at it"

Aikuen wrinkles his nose at the poke, and chuckles "Aye! I hope so... Kissing you with only half lips... it just isn't the same" He smirks as he leans more into her, closing his eyes.

Since Aik's dozed off for a bit longer Fira's vacated her chair and her book in favour of continuing to tidy the place up. Currently chasing a cup that rolled under one of the beds.

Will peeks in to see how Aikuen's doing. Seeing him sleep he asks Fira, "How's he doing now?" before remembering she can't hear him. He sits down on one of the beds to wait for her to notice him before repeating his question.

Fira takes a moment to get the cup, completely oblivious to him until she pokes back up beside the bed. She blinks when she spots the rat, little smile of greeting appearing "Hey Will."

"Hi. Is he better?" Will points over to Aikuen.

Fira gives the otter in question a glance as she stands up again "Oh sure. He's been awake. Said his lip was little numb but probably just still waking up."

The rat nods, "That's good." He notices the flask has been moved to the 'Throw Out' pile. "Are we gonna go through th rest of that stuff?" he asks.

Fira follows his eyes to the next point of question "Well I haven't touched them yet but we're going to have to sometime. Can't just leave them there" putting the cup down out the way as she heads for the pile, settle down to start looking through it.

Will stays where he is watching Fira should something bad happen, like yesterday.

Fira has the good sense not to try and smell anything, holding things out the way and trying to identify them from sight. She grimaces at the first one as it seems to be growing new stuff. On the throw out pile that goes.

Will continues to watch since she doesn't seem to need any help so far.

Fira is starting to get a little self conscious about being watched. She keeps feeling like she's missed him saying something so after the third time she looks back over to him she speaks up again "Looking for something to do?"

Will shrugs, "I dunno. ... You need any help with that stuff?"

Fira looks faintly amused but nods "Could help. Just don't do anything to end up like Aik."

Will looks panicked at the thought for a few seconds, "I wont." He goes to sit down at Fira's left. "What do you make me t do?" he asks.

Fira slightly regrets saying it at the panicked look and gives him a little reassured smile "He really is just fine" she offers out one of the potions "Don't smell or taste anything, just look at it. If it doesn't look like it's gone off or growing things then good but if it /is/ good and doesn't have a label just set it out the way of the others if you don't know what it is."

Will nods and pulls a flask out of the pile. It seems to be in good condition, whatever it is. He looks for a label of some kind and finding none he sets it the proper pile and picks up a bottle next. It's not labeled either but it's very familiar looking, maybe it was ale or something once. He puts in with the other unlabeled things. "Not sure about this one," he says as he sets it down.

Fira keeps an eye on him, makes her a bit slower but it's needed so when he starts speaking she looks back over again "Not sure if it's good or not sure if you know it?

Will says, "I don't see nothin' growing in it or anything like that ... just not quite sure what it is. I might but if I'm right then we got plenty already in th cellar, though it could be somethin else."

Fira nods slowly before offering a shrug "Well we'll go through that lot with Aik later, see if he knows what any of them are. Hope the stuff in the cellar is a bit fresher than this lot though. Got to wonder how long this place has been empty."

Will says, "Th stuff in th cellar should be alright. Pa would know if it wasn't since he knows a lot about that sort of stuff. We'd only use it for medical reasons, against th rules t it drink it and for good reason." He sorts through some more of the potions

Fira raises a brow faintly "Not allowed at all? Hm. How odd...Has that well been cleaned out at all?"

Will says, "Well I suppose if ya /wanted/ t drink an break th rules you could, but then ya'd have t get 'thrown in th pond' or I guess here it'd be th river cause we don't have a actual pond like th abbey does. I cleaned out th well when I was first here til th water I drew out was clear but it probably needs t be cleaned out again by now."

Fira is a combination of amused and confused by this news "The river?...I take it you've had problems with beasts drinking too much? Yeesh, no one knows moderation anymore...I'll scale down the well tomorrow and take a look. Could be fun."

Will nods, "You could say that. That's why we have th rules we do. So beasts won't do stupid stuff as much."

Fira shrugs a shoulder "Well that's fair enough. Never had the money for drinking myself, just curious...what sort of stupid stuff happened to cause all that then?"

Will chews on his lip thinking over how the rules came about, "Well Pa used to be a drunk but he's not now. An one time at th Abbey he was stupid an let some vermin hare talk him into getting in a fight an that hare nearly killed him an I /told/ him not t go fight Craven but he didn't listen an went out there anyway. He doesn't listen very well, sometimes."

"Not again. No. We done in here?" he asks, now that the medicine has been sorted.

Fira looks back to it all "Well we're done with the medicine at least for now. Still think the place needs a bit more tidying up...Pretty sure that bed on the end might need a couple of new legs too. Got that many holes eaten in them," gesturing her head towards the bed she was hunting the cup under before.

Will nods, "You gonna clean up more in here or go outside to look at th well or what?"

Fira rolls her eyes with a small smirk "Well I was going to carry on in here but I guess Aik can find us when he wakes up if you want to deal with the well," getting up again, "We'll need a nice long bit of rope though and preferably a lantern."

"Yeah, it's too hot in here," Will says heading out to find some rope and a lantern.

Storage Chamber

Fira follows along behind him, wants to be extra sure of the rope. Getting stuck down a well isn't on her list of things to do "Think it's the underground thing. Not a whole lot of windows round this place"

Will scans the shelves looking for an lantern he's already pulled down a long thick rope, which lays in a pile on the floor. He can hear Racky sleeping in the dibbun hole behind him, as he contemplates climbing the shelves to see things better.

Fira pikes up the rope to look it over, give it a few sharp tugs. Yeah, that'd probably take her weight "Where abouts are the lanterns?" glancing round the shelves.

Will tests the lower shelves by pushing down on them to see if they'll hold his weight, "Don't know. Haven't seen any. They might be up higher." Since no one's stopping him yet, the rat starts to climb the shelves to see if there's a lantern higher up. He may not be anywhere near as skilled as a squirrel but he's not doing too bad.

Fira would just get it herself since she's taller but he seems set on climbing and she's not going to spoil his fun "Alright, wave if you need a hand" keeping an eye on him as she coils the rope up neatly again.

Will climbs higher, "Ah ha! Why would they put them way up here?" He grabs a lantern and passes it down to Fira.

Aikuen has awaken in the infirmary to find the place deserted, and the potions organized. He chuckles, knowing what happened when he fell asleep, and leaves the place, looking around to wherever his fiance went. He reached Molehall, and could hear voices coming from the storage chamber, and ventures inside. He sees them both and laughs, "Well, lookie here... We got a lovely ottermaid who left me alone, In my time of need! And my son! Who thinks he is a squirrel!" He chuckles as he goes to stand next to her, also keeping an eye on Will, "A Lantern? And a rope? What going on?" he asks.

Fira takes the lantern down off of Will and gives him enough space to get down again "Seasons only knows why moles would even make shelves that tall but I'm glad they bothered with the ceiling space" she only spots Aik when he turns up next to her, smile growing a little "Going to look down the well."

Will doesn't bother to climb down and just lets go to drop down to the floor, on paws and knees. "Hi, Pa. You doin better today?" he asks.

Aikuen shrugs, "Well I'm not tired anymore... My lip is still numb though..." He grabs it again and pulls on it, the lets it go "Nope not a thing... Going down a well eh? I'm guessing that you don't need a shovel... to do... whatever it is your doing..." He places an arm around Fira.

Fira looks curiously at the lip but she's still hoping it'll wake up in time "I have paws and the well should have a handy bucket on a rope. I'll make do" she looks the shelves over quickly but nothing more to take as far as she can tell "Alright. Lets get on with this while the weather's still nice" aiming a quick perk on the cheek at Aik before very gracefully going to twirl out of his arm, give him a quick playful poke on the shoulder in the process and head for the door. Apparently idea of scaling down a well puts her in a good mood.

Aikuen is caught off balance with the arm twirl, but he can maintain. He chuckles and looks to Will, giving him a wink, before catching up to Fira, "Oi! Wait up... Still haven't told me what's going on! Why going down the well!"

Will follows the otters out, having nothing better to do.

Moledeep: Well

Fira doesn't look back to get Aikuen's message, just carries on to the well and dumps the rope down next to it before settling the lantern on the edge, check it, see what she needs to do to get it working.

Will looks into the well and looks back over to Fira, "You ready t go down in there?"

Aikuen ahs, "Oh is that all... Right Lantern thing... light..." He places the lantern on the side of the well, and opens the door. Taking his dagger and his handy flint. He sparks it together until the oil catches. He closes the door, and hands it to Fira. He gives her a Kiss before saying, "Careful now!" He smiles.

Will sits down by the well to watch the otters.

Fira takes the lantern back with a delightful little smile and she ties it to about the middle of the rope before lowering it down into the well. She's started to grin, by the time she's perched on the edge of the well it's pretty much taken over "That is deep" tiny bit of a dare devil, specially with heights over water. After about a minute perched she grabs the rope "Careful would spoil all the fun" spinning round to swiftly drop into the well. Sure she might get a bit of rope burn but the fall's worth it judging by the little joyful woop. She has to slow before she hits the lantern but soon as she's swung past it she just lets go and drops into the water. Totally worth it. Resurfacing with a laugh.

Aikuen looks down into the well and looks at the laughing dot that is Fira. He chuckles and leans against the well turning to Will, "Looks like she is having fun!" he smiles and looks back in.

The rat peer down into the well also, "Yep. How long ya think she'll be down there? She might not want t come up when she's done."

Aikuen laughs, "I don't know much about cleaning wells so..." he laughs, "But she does have to eat sooner or later!" He places his arm on the side, just watching

Fira dives back under again, the lantern light giving her a little bit of light to see by and there's not exactly much space to explore so she's down to work pretty quickly. Shifting a couple of paw fulls of stuff into the bucket before she spots the obvious problem, looking back up again "You know, I have no idea what's going on up there anymore...you're a little hard to see from here too. Heh. Talk among yourselves and bring up the bucket when I say...move the rope with the lantern or something if you need me." Hopefully they won't, even her good eyesight isn't doing much good from the bottom of a well. She dives off down again.

Aikuen yells into the Well, "Yah I gotcha! Even though you can't here me right now!" He gives a small flick to the rope, and continues to watch. He then says, "Why are we cleaning it again?"

Will shrugs, "I hasn't been cleaned in a while so she thought it might be dirty or something I think ... or maybe she just wanted t go down there."

Aikuen tilts his head, still not entirely convinced, "Well, okay... i guess... Water seems fine to me... But she seems to enjoy it, so it may the last thing anyway!" He laughs.

Fira is quite content down the well. Oblivious to the yelling and quite happy moving gunk from the bottom of the well into the bucket. Sticking her tongue out a little as the gunk's not very nice. Finally gets the bucket fairly full though and resurfaces again "Hey! Get the bucket up, empty it and send it back down again"

Will had sat back down by the well and has fallen asleep. Looks like Aikuen will have to pull the bucket up by himself.