13 Chirreb 4385: (6 Chirreb) Carried Away
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delight_in_wtCarried Away
Trust said Mirhandrax came to check on me a couple of times while I was still in a Healing Sleep but I didn't see him until he came to carry me down to the ship.
"Honestly I can walk Trust -- " I started to say quickly, then breathed while Trust glowered at me. "It broke my ribs ... not my legs!"
"And Mirhandrax can carry you," Trust told me. "He doesn't mind, do you? ♥"
"Not a bit," Mirhandrax rumbled. But he didn't pick me up right away. Instead, he stood beside the big bed, gazing down at me.
"Are we leaving now?" I aked.
"Yes." He still didn't pick me up.
"... am I allowed to walk ... after all?" I asked.
"No," Mirhandrax and Trust said together. The Gormorror continued by himself, "Delight-in-Flight, I must apologize."
"For carrying me?"
"No." He shook his big shaggy brown head. "For not resisting your spell."
"Whaaaat you don't mean the ... pocker do you? Because I didn't cast that!"
Mirhandrax rumbled with a brief laugh. "No. I meant I should not have allowed you to exhange places with me."
"Whaaaat? That's crazy you ... were about to drown ... if you didn't get squished to jelly first."
Mirhandrax brushed aside my protests with a big paw. "I am a Gormorror warrior. I am far more capable of fighting and defeating a water elemental than you are. I should not have permitted you to get into such a dangerous position."
"But I didn't have to fight the elemental," I objected. "I just had to cast one ... spell and I'd be out again."
"One spell." Mirhandrax looked at me. "How many times did you try to cast that spell?" When I didn't answer right away, he added bitterly, "Was it so many you cannot recall?"
"Noooo only three."
Mirhandrax threw his head back and covered his face with his paws. "I am a coward!" he roared. "A villain and a coward! I let a helpless Orren girl take my place in the clutches of a deadly monster!"
Trust grabbed one of Mirhandrax's arms and tried to haul it down. He only succeeded in pulling himself a few inches off the ground. "Did you even know what spell Dee was casting on you?"
"I did not think -- but what else could it have been, with Locador? I should have known!"
"Because I thought it was Nowhere Prison when I saw you vanish," Trust said.
Mirhandrax paused. "That would have worked, wouldn't it?"
"If she casts it with Sustenoc -- which she can -- it would've outlasted the trap," Trust said.
"Nowhere Prison's kinda slow for a rescue," I said. "And the trap would've re-sprung when he came back." Trust gave me a look that said 'stop helping' so I didn't add that I'd said "Change Places!" when I cast it. I don't see how Trust could've been confused about it, although surely Mirhandrax couldn't've heard me what with fighting for his life forty feet under water.
Trust continued, "It still would've been easier to get Mirhandrax out of the next trap, if he even set it off when you came back. I'm not sure he was low enough in the stairwell to set it off again."
The Gormorror just shook his head. "It should have been me."
"No it shouldn't!" Trust yelped, letting go of Mirhandrax's arm to drop to the floor. "Dee had just gotten a breath and you were drowning. Dee is practically impossible to hold, and she's as at home in water as on land, and she can teleport out of danger. Yes, you're much tougher, but that's not what the problem needed! Delight could solve it and you couldn't so what you needed to do was let her. Which you did."
"Had I been braver, I would have gone after her as Outcast did -- "
"And gotten yourself killed." Trust folded his arms over his chest. "Like Outcast would've, if YOU hadn't been on the steps to help pull him out. And Outcast could get away with trying because he's Orren too: quick in the water and hard to grab. If you'd gone in -- even if all the rest of us had! -- we'd maybe've killed that waterKhtsoyis, after Dee had successfully gotten herself out without assistance. And then we'd all be at the bottom of that lake fighting the next unwounded one. Dee had the right plan and was brave enough to act on it, and we were all smart enough to follow our parts in it. Isn't that the point of practicing as a team? To work together? Not to resist each other's spells while second-guessing them in the middle of a fight."
Now that I think about it, maybe Trust has the makings of an adventurer after all.
Mirhandrax met Trust's eyes for a few moments, then lowered his gaze.
"And if you're all impessed by Delight being fearless and rescuing you, then the polite thing to do is say 'thank you'. Not castigate her for trying," Trust finished.
Mirhandrax cleared his throat. "Thank you for rescuing me, Delight-in-Flight," he rumbled, abashed. "That was very brave of you."
"You're welcome! It wasn't that brave ... I'm sure you all could have ... gotten me out somehow. Without diving in. Like Trust could've cast Spirit Reunion ... on me if I used up my last ... Heal the Awful Wound. And Purrzhon could float my body out."
Mirhandrax and Trust exchanged glances. "I am not sure Trust has the power for casting at such distances."
"Well no that's ... what hammercasting is for," I said.
Mirhandrax scooped me out of the bed while Trust tucked his tail between his legs. "I'm not actually that good at hammercasting, Dee. ♥"
"Oh." I shrugged a little as Mirhandrax carried me out of the room, Trust following behind this. "I'm sure you had a plan for it. Or would have come up with one. If you had to. Which you don't. So it all worked out fine!"
"It did indeed," Mirhandrax said, sober and thoughtful.
Trust said Mirhandrax came to check on me a couple of times while I was still in a Healing Sleep but I didn't see him until he came to carry me down to the ship.
"Honestly I can walk Trust -- " I started to say quickly, then breathed while Trust glowered at me. "It broke my ribs ... not my legs!"
"And Mirhandrax can carry you," Trust told me. "He doesn't mind, do you? ♥"
"Not a bit," Mirhandrax rumbled. But he didn't pick me up right away. Instead, he stood beside the big bed, gazing down at me.
"Are we leaving now?" I aked.
"Yes." He still didn't pick me up.
"... am I allowed to walk ... after all?" I asked.
"No," Mirhandrax and Trust said together. The Gormorror continued by himself, "Delight-in-Flight, I must apologize."
"For carrying me?"
"No." He shook his big shaggy brown head. "For not resisting your spell."
"Whaaaat you don't mean the ... pocker do you? Because I didn't cast that!"
Mirhandrax rumbled with a brief laugh. "No. I meant I should not have allowed you to exhange places with me."
"Whaaaat? That's crazy you ... were about to drown ... if you didn't get squished to jelly first."
Mirhandrax brushed aside my protests with a big paw. "I am a Gormorror warrior. I am far more capable of fighting and defeating a water elemental than you are. I should not have permitted you to get into such a dangerous position."
"But I didn't have to fight the elemental," I objected. "I just had to cast one ... spell and I'd be out again."
"One spell." Mirhandrax looked at me. "How many times did you try to cast that spell?" When I didn't answer right away, he added bitterly, "Was it so many you cannot recall?"
"Noooo only three."
Mirhandrax threw his head back and covered his face with his paws. "I am a coward!" he roared. "A villain and a coward! I let a helpless Orren girl take my place in the clutches of a deadly monster!"
Trust grabbed one of Mirhandrax's arms and tried to haul it down. He only succeeded in pulling himself a few inches off the ground. "Did you even know what spell Dee was casting on you?"
"I did not think -- but what else could it have been, with Locador? I should have known!"
"Because I thought it was Nowhere Prison when I saw you vanish," Trust said.
Mirhandrax paused. "That would have worked, wouldn't it?"
"If she casts it with Sustenoc -- which she can -- it would've outlasted the trap," Trust said.
"Nowhere Prison's kinda slow for a rescue," I said. "And the trap would've re-sprung when he came back." Trust gave me a look that said 'stop helping' so I didn't add that I'd said "Change Places!" when I cast it. I don't see how Trust could've been confused about it, although surely Mirhandrax couldn't've heard me what with fighting for his life forty feet under water.
Trust continued, "It still would've been easier to get Mirhandrax out of the next trap, if he even set it off when you came back. I'm not sure he was low enough in the stairwell to set it off again."
The Gormorror just shook his head. "It should have been me."
"No it shouldn't!" Trust yelped, letting go of Mirhandrax's arm to drop to the floor. "Dee had just gotten a breath and you were drowning. Dee is practically impossible to hold, and she's as at home in water as on land, and she can teleport out of danger. Yes, you're much tougher, but that's not what the problem needed! Delight could solve it and you couldn't so what you needed to do was let her. Which you did."
"Had I been braver, I would have gone after her as Outcast did -- "
"And gotten yourself killed." Trust folded his arms over his chest. "Like Outcast would've, if YOU hadn't been on the steps to help pull him out. And Outcast could get away with trying because he's Orren too: quick in the water and hard to grab. If you'd gone in -- even if all the rest of us had! -- we'd maybe've killed that waterKhtsoyis, after Dee had successfully gotten herself out without assistance. And then we'd all be at the bottom of that lake fighting the next unwounded one. Dee had the right plan and was brave enough to act on it, and we were all smart enough to follow our parts in it. Isn't that the point of practicing as a team? To work together? Not to resist each other's spells while second-guessing them in the middle of a fight."
Now that I think about it, maybe Trust has the makings of an adventurer after all.
Mirhandrax met Trust's eyes for a few moments, then lowered his gaze.
"And if you're all impessed by Delight being fearless and rescuing you, then the polite thing to do is say 'thank you'. Not castigate her for trying," Trust finished.
Mirhandrax cleared his throat. "Thank you for rescuing me, Delight-in-Flight," he rumbled, abashed. "That was very brave of you."
"You're welcome! It wasn't that brave ... I'm sure you all could have ... gotten me out somehow. Without diving in. Like Trust could've cast Spirit Reunion ... on me if I used up my last ... Heal the Awful Wound. And Purrzhon could float my body out."
Mirhandrax and Trust exchanged glances. "I am not sure Trust has the power for casting at such distances."
"Well no that's ... what hammercasting is for," I said.
Mirhandrax scooped me out of the bed while Trust tucked his tail between his legs. "I'm not actually that good at hammercasting, Dee. ♥"
"Oh." I shrugged a little as Mirhandrax carried me out of the room, Trust following behind this. "I'm sure you had a plan for it. Or would have come up with one. If you had to. Which you don't. So it all worked out fine!"
"It did indeed," Mirhandrax said, sober and thoughtful.
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