Settling Back In Part Two
Characters: Kentar, Aikuen, Will, Zen
Location: Abbey Infirmary
Abbey Infirmary
There are a few healers gathered around Kentar's bed this morning, all seem to be doing something different. One is carefully unwrapping the stoat's head from the bandages, the others are replacing the bandages on his paws, and the others replacing the bandages around his footpaws. During this, Kentar just lays still.
Aikuen hobbles in, and is just about to say hello to the Stoat when he sees that he is being worked on. He just nods, and goes to the bed across from him and waits till he can talk again.
The healers don't take very long. Its another few minutes before they're done. "Alright...ready?" the stoat sighs a bit. "Yeah." Then off comes the bandage on the face. Some of the healers gasp a bit but then grab his eye patch, placing it over his eye. "There. If you need anything else, just call." The healer mice go off and there's Kentar's face. The 'A' brand is very visible, and his snout is a little mangled although its really hardly noticeable.
Aikuen squints a bit at the stoats face, "Matey... How do you feel?" His eyes trace over the A, before look back to Kentar.
Kentar sighs and shrugs. "My head feels lighter." he says. "But other then that, sore. How do I look?" he asks, opening his eye.
Aikuen shakes his head, "Just awful mate... But i can still see Kentar under there..." He fully opens his eyes after getting the surprise of the first look.
Kentar sighs. "Yeah...figured." he sighs. "Don't think Garnet would still like me after she sees me again." he shrugs slightly.
Aikuen is surprised, "Yah! Why not! She loves yah for you... not for... your face! Don't worry about it... if she doesn't like you... ill... ill eat my crutch!" He laughs and taps said object.
Kentar watches Aikuen for a few moments then grins. "Deal. I'd love to see it." he laughs before sitting up. "So what about you? How's the leg?"
Aikuen shrugs, "Same ole', Same ole'... Except at night...I can feel the muscle repairing itself... AND IT HURTS!" He chuckles, "Its fine... Thanks mate... Do you have motion in..." He waves his paws around.
Kentar nods. "At least it will get better." He smiles before tilting his head one way. "Do I have motion in?" he asks, his head moving around, watching the paws instead of just his eye moving.
Aikuen puts his paws down, "Not what i was asking but... Yep... You got the same thing Wills got... Eye muscle totally destroyed... You still have an eye though... That's always good..." He nods and says, "I was asking if you have movement in your arms?"
Kentar tilts his head. "What do you mean eye muscle totally destroyed?" he asks, looking rather worried now. "But yeah..." he moves his right arm about. Not so much his left. "Well. My right arm moves fine. Bit of trouble with my left."
Aikuen tilts his head, "When you look, you moved your head, instead of your eye... The muscle is gone..." He nods to Kentars left arm, "What wrong with that one?"
Kentar Sighs and nods slowly. "Oh. Okay." He sighs again. "You think I will be able to move my eye again?" he asks. Then he shrugs. "No idea whats wrong with it." he says. "Just hard to move.
Aikuen shrugs, "Don't know mate... IT depends on how badly the muscle was hurt... It may never... But that's okay" He looks to said paw, and holds up his own and twiddles his claws, "Can you do this?"
Kentar looks over at the paw slowly and very slowly lifts his up, trying to. A few of his claws twiddle but thats about it. "Its...really hard to..."
Aikuen nods a bit, "Okay, just wondering... may be awhile before you can move it again..." He sighs and leans back in the bed, "At least i hope so..."
Kentar nods very slowly. "Right...well. I am just glad I'm alive." he says quietly. "That fox was going to kill me."
Aikuen tilts his head, "Do you know why? I mean exactly why, he wanted to kill you..."
Kentar shakes his head. "Because he could. Thats it. Mayeul led him to us. He took who he could. And it just happened to be me." He sighs. "Would you have come after me, Aikuen?"
Aikuen knows the answer but its not a good one, "Im sorry... but no...I wouldn't... Its a terrible thing to say... but... I just couldn't..." He sighs, and looks away form the stoat.
Kentar blinks and sighs. He closes his eye and just lays there, fighting back tears. He knew the otter couldn't because of Will and Fira, but deep inside he didn't want to believe it. He would have been just left to be tortured to death. And the stoat can't really grasp why.
Aikuen sees him and says, "Im sorry mate...A couple of seasons ago... I would gone there with a full armada... but, now... Im just,... Im sorry." He sighs and stares at him.
Kentar just sighs. He falls totally quiet for the moment, seemingly quite upset. Even though deep inside he already knew the otter would say such things.
Aikuen leans back in the bed, what more can he say then what has been said. He blinks a few times and finnaly says, "I know its not what you wanted to hear...but...
Kentar sighs and opens his eye slowly, a tear falling when its fully open. Its wiped away quickly before the stoat nods. "I...understand. I guess..." even though if it had have been Aikuen, he would have gone after him.
Aikuen smiles a little, but its soon gone again. He gets up from the bed and leans on his crutch, "Im very sorry... is there anything i could do... to make it up?" a long shot.
Kentar sighs and shakes his head again. "No. There's not." he says quietly. "Just...drop it." he rolls slowly onto his side away from Aikuen and winces a bit as he does.
Aikuen sighs and starts to walk off, "Alright mate... Ill be back later... Im gonna see a beast about a chair with wheels... for you..." He wipes a paw across his eyes, and exits the infirmary.
Aikuen room-pages, "Oh goody!".
Kentar sighs. "Don't bother, they said I'll be able to walk either tomorrow or the day after."
Aikuen's voice can hear from the outside, "Alright then... Ill be back later with some food..."
Kentar sighs. "Whatever." The stoat mutters quietly. As soon as Aikuen is gone, the stoat quietly starts to cry.
Zen slowly pokes his head in, curious to see if the talking bandage, or Kentar, accepted his cheese wedge or not. He then tilts his head. Was he crying?!? Na... Adults don't cry... He steps him, clearing his throat to make himself a little more noticed. "Uh.. hi."
Will comes up behind Zen and looks in as well. He had said he'd check on the stoat. "Are you alroight, Kentar?" he asks from the doorway.
Kentar isn't a talking bandage anymore. The bandage over his head was gone. Which leaves the A brand clearly visible on the side of his face. The stoat actually ignores the quiet hi, just doing his best to block out the world.
Zen glances at Will, giving a soft nod, then he glanced back over to Kentar. Slowly making his way over to where he was, he set another cheese wedge down on the cot. "I-I.. got this for you."
Kentar doesn't move much. "What is it?" he asks in a rather stern, un-Kentar like tone.
Zen squeeks softly, "It's... another cheese wedge.. I thought you might like it.." He smiles the best he can, tilting his head. Should he ask? No, not yet.
Will looks the stoat over puzzled, "If you're not feeling well we can go."
"Not hungry." Comes the stoat's rather abrupt reply.
Kentar sighs. "Just leave me alone. Both of you. I'm not in the mood for company." sniffle.
Zen squeeks yet again and nods his head, giving Will a look that screamed, 'aww.. I don't want to go!'. He thinks a moment and finds a spot on a cot near by and crawls up onto it, watching the stoat curiously. "Well... ok... ughn, if... you need anythn', I can be right here..." Some just can't take a hint.
Will sighs, "I'll be out in th kitchen yard then if anyone needs me." He hopes Zen doesn't bother the stoat too much and leaves the room.
Kentar sits up. "Will...Wait." he tries to get the rat to stop before he goes. He just slowly looks at Zen before back in Will's direction.
Zen blinks a little, slowly getting that unwelcoming feeling in his gut. He remains where he's at though, deciding maybe it would be best if he's not seen, but still there. He crawls underneath a sheet.
The rat had gone out into the hallway but comes back in after hearing Kentar call him. "I'm still here."
Kentar takes a deep breath. "If you were Aikuen...would you have come after me? Or leave me to die?" he asks.
Zen keeps quiet and motionless under the blankets. He grins to himself softly though. He felt like a good thief or spy, and that's just what he wanted to be, except he didn't notice his tail was swaying side to side outside of the sheet.
Will is confused but answers best he can, "I don't know. I'm not him. He sent Mayeul after you and at the time I was thinkin about coming after you myself even though I didn't want t go back there .... but you're here now so no reason t go back there now." He remembers Zen is there, "And Mayeul'll be back here again soon."
Kentar sighs and takes a deep breath. "Would you have come after me even if Aikuen wouldn't go?" he asks. He sees Zen's tail and will remember its there but he keeps his eye focused on Will.
Zen listens quietly, then rubs his eyes! Wow, was he getting tired? No! It was... a trick, yes! They are on to him and are some how making him sleepy! The mouse scurries a little further into the sheet, giggling softly as he lets his imagination throw him off track.
Will chews his lip a little, "Don't know why he wouldn't have but yes I would have, no idea if I would have made it out of there with you though."
Kentar smiles a bit. "I asked him if he would have come for me and he said no, he wouldn't have...well. I..." he sighs. "I don't know. I don't know right now if I should consider him my friend anymore. I don't...I don't know."
Will isn't sure how to take this and tries to come up with a reason for the otter's answer, "Maybe he was scared of th fox ... of what he'd find if he went and didn't think he could help you. I don't know. You still gonna live at my tunnel or you rather live some place else instead?" He sits down on the bed next to the Zen shaped lump no sure what to think.
Zen giggles a little more, moving about under the sheets until he bumps into something! "Eeoof!" He starts to turn around and search for a way out of the sheets.
Kentar sighs. "I really don't think that was it. I think...I think that he just didn't want to." he says before shrugging at the bit of living. "I don't know Will. I am not sure if I will leave when I'm better or will stay with you. I don't want to be around somebeast who doesn't like me
The rat nods, ears dooping, "I-I need t go work at th kiln, I'm out of practice .... I'll be back later .... or something." he mumbles heading for the door again.
Kentar nods slowly. "C'ya Will." he sighs before laying back.
Zen pokes his out from the blankets, glancing at Kentar curiously. "Hrmm... ok?"
Will nods slightly at the stoat and the mouse before leaving quickly making a bee-line for the kiln.
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