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[heal_theworld]

Who: Martel Yggdrasill and you!
What: Nightmares!
When: Today
Where: In Martel's nightmares
Rating: T to R for death and blood and general horror stuff.


[Martel was asleep in her bed when the toxin came, and she fell from her dreamless state of sleep to something much, much worse.

When you arrive in her dreamscape at first it seems empty, just blackness that seems to never end. It’s cold, and empty, and it’s almost like you’re trapped there, with nothing. Only when you take a step, does the blackness start to resolve into colors and pictures. A nightmare starts to take form, and you can’t escape until it plays out.

What’s your worst fear?]


[ooc: Sections: DEATH | GUILT TIME | SOULLESS/EVIL CRYSTAL DISEASE]

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[radiantwingedone]

[ Scream. Yes, Duke could hear that, and the sounds with it tells him all he needs to. The smell - blood, he was sure of that one, at least - with the sound of something heavy falling and its quite a clear picture to him.

No. Not again. Someone trying to protect and dying because of it-

Duke stumbles forward, trying to gauge the distance so he doesn't step on or kick the fallen woman, hoping his nose would tell him before he did either.

He can heal humanoids. He can. HE just has to focus, and try to get his magic back. He shouldn't have tried to give most of it to her, it was hard to bring it back because no, there's too much blood-smell. ]

[heal_theworld]

[Martel sees him then, laying on her side and pressing her hand to her wound. She calls out weakly.] ...Duke?

[radiantwingedone]

[ It.. may be the way she sounds that really makes it click. Duke swerves to angle more correctly toward her, trying to find her with careful hands as he drops to a kneel. ]

Likely shouldn't be talking, why can't gather enough, should be plenty, just gave...

[ Let him.. try to apply more pressure to that, once he finds the warm-sticky and her hand. He'll find something for a bandage as well, if he has to use his coat. ]

[heal_theworld]

Duke, Duke...don't strain yourself. [She gives a little laugh, and it's weak.] This is how I die.

[radiantwingedone]

[ That makes him pause. Martel said that as a definite. What had he heard? Martel was dead? Yes, that sounded right, from the child who felt similar-yet-not.

Confusion about him being here was quickly sorted out. Dream. Like how others showed up in his. The past, replayed, never changing - ]

Wish to attempt. Try is better than... [ Than doing nothing and 'watching'. Duke sort of mental-scrambles for mana, any mana, or aer, or something he can use like magic to try to help her stay alive. ]

[heal_theworld]

[Her lips twitch into a wry smile.] It doesn't work that way... I'm so sorry, Duke.

[radiantwingedone]

Whether it works that way or not, I... refuse to not even attempt...

[ He'd rather uselessly cast healing spells until his mind couldn't process the formula than give in.

Which he finally manages gather enough for. Its only one, a Healing Circle, but he is going to keep trying... ]

[heal_theworld]

[She smiles sadly up at him, and ever so gently touches his cheek, wary of the fact he cannot see her.] Thank you for trying... even if it is hopeless.

[radiantwingedone]

[ A near flinch, before Duke ducks his head and tries to focus very hard. ]

... always here? [ If its always in this spot then Duke will pick Martel up and try somewhere else. ]

[heal_theworld]

I...don't know. Nobody's ever tried.

[radiantwingedone]

.... Sorry. [ And he's going to do his best to pick Martel up and try not to walk into anything. ]

[heal_theworld]

[He jolts her and she tries to hang on, but she's took weak and utterly fails at it.] I...don't think this is going to work, Duke.

[radiantwingedone]

.... Trying anyway.

[ Only that was a tree root and Duke stumbles to try to keep his balance.

And sits down.

Maybe this doesn't work as well as he thought. ]

[heal_theworld]

I'll be all right, I swear. It'll be all right. [She says this quietly, and closes her eyes.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ A thin hope. Duke doesn't know whether to cling to it to just... pretend it didn't exist. ]

[heal_theworld]

[Her rattled breathing stops all of a sudden, her heart slowing until it doesn't beat anymore. And just like that...she's gone.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke blinks once or twice, trying to tell if it was his head playing games, or just...

Nope. This would be a dead woman more or less in his lap now. Wonderful. Even if it was 'how it happened'...

He'll just... stay sitting here then. ]