Suddenly, a wild owl appears! (Louie Wein)

Cheveche meets Louie for the first time.

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Suddenly, a wild owl appears! (Louie Wein)

Postby Cheveche on March 6th, 2012, 12:14 pm

Time Stamp: 28th of Spring, 512 AV

Winter was coming to its end for another year, and the gradual change in temperature was further proof of it. Flowers that grew between the cracks of the rubble were starting to grow, and winters frost was disappearing. The atmosphere felt solemn to Cheveche, but she was quick to assume it was because of the recent storm and the tole it took. Little did she know that the people of this city would be forced to leave their homes and venture out into unfamiliar lands. Nor did she have time to investigate something that seemed so trivial. She was having troubles of her own. The massive release of Djed from nearly thirty days ago was still effecting her in an extensive way. Most importantly, her ability to navigate had been thrown out of whack. Her disorientation being the result, finding that she had no idea where she was, or where she was headed. And if that wasn't bad enough, her perception was way off. The distance of things around her appeared to be in a constant state of change, one moment appearing extremely close, the next, miles away. In order to keep herself safe, she was forced to fly high above everything. The last effect was more of an annoyance then a handicap, leaving her unable to change between her owl form and human form. She had been stuck like this ever since the storm, and while it was a bother, she was getting accustomed to it. After all, she was an owl with a human form. Not the other way around.

The day Cheveche arrived in Denval was a very windy one. Every foot of progress felt like an uphill battle. The ground below her was disconcerting as she watched it shift and change, leaving only uncertainty. The force of the wind, and the constant flying was exhausting, her will and strength waning. How much longer could she continue like this? Feeling strength leave with every flap of her wing, she reluctantly decided she needed to try and find someplace to rest. Just until the wind died down, she thought, then she would take off again. Maybe after resting she would return to normal. The idea made her a bit happier, and even gave her the extra boost she needed.

Tilting her head sideways, Cheveche eyed a large building that looked like it was coming up fast. She knew she couldn't trust her eyes at the moment, but she needed to land, and she would take this chance. So adjusting the ends of her primary feathers upward, the strong wind made quick work of her decent down towards what appeared to be an open window. Hopefully it was really what it appeared to be. But while she was already very close, to her it looked as if it were still several hundred feet away. The mistake in judgement would cost her dearly as she crashed head first into a glass window, breaking it, and continuing inside the building. Only coming to a sudden and violent halt when she collided with the side of a wooden desk. If luck had been on her side, she would have had time to extend her talons forward, allowing them to take the brunt of the collision and lessening the damage. The sound of shattering glass echoed through the room and surprised most, if not all, of the students inside. The emotions of fear, shock, then worry crossed each of the childrens faces. The moments following the loud interruption were filled with silence and concerned glances. While the ones that occupied the front row of chairs had their eyes fixed on the unfolding scene. Dark red blood speckled a few spots near the side of the desk, perhaps proof of a serious injury. And for a while, Cheveche lay sprawled out on the floor, unmoving, excepts for the slight but quick rise and fall of her plumage. It would be easy to assume that she had died on impact to those who weren't near enough to spot what little movement there was. Minute upon minute passed, and a certain suspense was growing; was the thing OK? What was it? Is it dead? Those were surely what most were asking. Some of them had even attempted to get closer so they could get a better look. And then, with young faces gathered near, and a teacher who was trying to get the kids away from her, she sprung, seemingly, back to life. As if hit by lightening, she was up on her feet and very frantic. Flapping her wings in an excited manor, one seemed to be incapacitated, only being able to move slightly. And even when she was trying to use her legs, she couldn't bring herself to touch the ground with one of them. Needless to say, this resulted in a strange display that looked as if the crazed owl was running in a wobbly circle, or a top spinning on its side. Her fear was obvious, both visually and audibly as she hissed and screeched; a warning to stay back.

OOCThe screeching sounds similar to this. XD

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Postby Louie Wein on March 7th, 2012, 2:24 am

Even if the evacuation was already announced days before, there was still quite some time before he actually had to leave. Louie had nothing to do but prepare but there was not too much packing which the man needed to do. What he actually needed to prepare himself was with knowledge just like a lot of the other things he always found himself needing to do. The only thing he knew now was that a lot of them were going to head towards Zeltiva though some of the other citizens might leave on the other stops. "What a shame, hehehe..." Ciel definitely enjoyed that. A whole home and culture taken away yet again thanks to the disasters brought by the gods.

He decided to have a special last class with whatever students left around and whose parents bothered to allow them to attend just to stay away while they were doing their own preparations. "Don't see this as a bad thing children, now you have a chance to explore the world..." He could see it in their face. The romance of adventure that the small town could not provide. "How long more until they regret it?" like Louie was feeling now.

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would be the safest place to start of with since it would the the first stop of the ship and everyone would be there. "Mr Wein why do you look so sad?" one of the little girls asked him. Damn, he should not show this kind of things to his students but he was regretting about teaching something else about another place instead of their own. This would be the last chance for it but the name was already on the board. There was no changing it now.

At least Louie knew quite a bit about it since they were one of the closest and most likely people to visit Denval. He even knew their language so he gave the students a choice. Not whether they can leave or not but "do you want to learn some Vani or do you want to learn about the vantha?" Languages were one of the most boring things to learn so he was not surprised that a lot of them chose the vantha.

"Well, they are a lot cooler than any of us" he said starting off with a joke. "Really? Is that the best that you can do?" Scholars and their poor sense of humor "but I'm not joking, its cold over there so remember to bring your warm clothes." Thinking of how to put it for his students, Louie finally got it that "wear whatever it is that you wore last season." That should be really easy for them since it was not too long ago. Before that crazy storm even happened.

Continuing on after that Louie explained that "here we have the Chapterhouse, temple and Chapel for our gods but theirs, Morwen has an entire ice palace!" if what the books and visitors say is true. Yes, an ice palace. "There are a lot of oth- What was that?" Is it another storm? Of all the rotten luck. Louie was just about to run out with the children to find a better place to hide out right until he noticed that there was only complete silence. No storms, and no children.

He took a look at what they were all watching and thought that this was just not his day. Death was one of the last things anyone needed to see even if it came from an animal. Was it even dead he asked himself just like some of the children were asking each other. Louie could not even tell unless he got closer but he did not want to. However the children did not share the same sentiment because there were some moving towards it. They should have listened that "you don't want to get close" because cornered animals were dangerous just like they can "se-eek?" or hear for themselves.

After Louie had his shocked outburst, he got to telling the rest of the children which were beginning to scream and cry to "calm down and keep away" since it was only an injured owl. "Why don't you put it out of its misery?" and as out of character the question was it did not seem out of place when he told one of the boys to "bring my my sword." Ciel obviously did not expect that when she asked if it was overkill to even think of using it.

Fortunately Louie would not since the others did not allow him to. As soon as it was in his hands and he advanced, the boys and girls pulled him back wailing that he cannot kill the owl even if it was scary. "What do you want me to do then?" he asked them and was a little bit disturbed by their suggestion that he should take care of it because he did not know "how?"

Ciel had the right idea that Louie had to toss the sword away first and he did before trying to go towards the owl which seemed more scary than scared to Louie despite him knowing it was kind of confused. How did he know that? Just because he was unarmed it did not mean that he was incapable. The auristics that he learned was not only for learning things but also in a way was good for fighting as he found out. While he was moving forward he tried to filter out the horrible screeching and the chatter of the children as he concentrated.

He started directing the djed in him and collecting them over his eyes as it covered over them. In only a few moments he started to see things differently. His mind filtering out the information that he saw through the aura that his djed was showing him. He was not interested in the finer points of it like its colour, size or anything like that. What Louie was looking for was the behavior of the aura so that he can get a measure of what the creature was feeling. Right now all it looked was erratic and wild just like the physical movements it was making. He had no idea how to handle something like this.

Children were the closest thing that he could think of. As he got closer to the owl he softly tried to say that "I'm not trying to hurt you. Will you let me help you?" He was not too interested in what the owl would think since it was only an animal. Would it even understand what he was saying? He stole a glimpse at the children and saw that their looks of fear were slowly changing to smiles of approval. With that he advanced even closer to the owl until it was within his arm's reach but maintaining that he was still out of its own. Louie did not like pain. Until he saw the owl's aura changing which was the most reliable information for him, he was not going to get close to it just yet.
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Postby Cheveche on March 14th, 2012, 10:51 pm

The collective staring eyes of the children was what had set Cheveche off in the first place. The crash through the window left her disoriented and unable to discern her surroundings. For all she knew, she had crashed into a den of hungry dogs. The situation made her heart race. Out of wave of indescribable voices, one reached out to her. It was a mans voice, calm and quiet. When he spoke, the others seemed to listen. But he wasn't talking to her. After he spoke with the children that crowded and loomed over Cheveche, they retreated little by little; giving her some semblance of safety. While he spoke, she turned her head up to look at him, eyes dilating as if to study him.

By now Cheveches hissing had grown silent, replaced by heavy and quick breaths as she fought to calm herself. Being as worked up as she was, her temperature rose quickly, and panting was the only option to vent that excess heat. Then she heard his voice again, but this time he was addressing her instead of the curious children. It helped to further sooth her. So much so, that instead of hissing, she started making quiet trilling noises. And by now she had stopped flapping her wings and turning in circles. Instead she stood perched on one leg. Her second leg was extended, but not touching the floor, its talons curled under slightly. And while one wing was tucked against her side, the other was slightly out away from her body. Most likely a sprained wing and leg. An injury that could take up to several weeks to heal.

From down on the ground, Cheveche continued to watch him; wandering what would happen next. She couldn't escape, and he had an owl in his classroom. With wide eyed children watching on in excitement at the thought of their classroom having a new pet. Cheveche was calm enough now, that if Louie was careful enough, he could pick her up off the floor by pressing her good wing against her body, and slipping his other hand beneath the hurt wing. If he were to attempt to pin both wings down, it would cause extreme pain and make her shake violently in an effort to break free. Perhaps even lashing out violently and dig her sharp hooked beak into Louie's flesh.
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Postby Louie Wein on March 26th, 2012, 7:31 am

A whole array of colours emanating wildly from the owl right until it became still, like the new silence from the owl that allowed the children, and Louie to feel a lot more relaxed now. They already have been through so much with the recent events that even such a small creature can cause so much chaos since its surprise appearance and that new sound it was making which caused Louie along with the rest of his students to retreat a little bit cautiously.

Until he saw the way that the owl was standing while the stillish aura remained. Louie was not the man that he was today if he was anything but astute towards his subjects of interest. Still owls and birds were not really the sort of things that he knew about well and therefore the sprained wing remained ignored though he is still able to tell the children that "there is nothing to worry about. It looks like its injured" but of course anyone would be able to tell that like his voice of reason which reminded him that "it had a loud crash."

Still looking at the owl Louie did one of the things that he really did not like to do. He had to admit that this was one of those times that "I don't know what to do." A book or manual on what to do now would be very helpful but Louie believed that such a thing would more likely be found in the Lyceum than the Academy. That would not be good now because he could tell that the children expected him to do something. Something that he did not know what. Fortunately one of the children who was more familiar with bird did the job for him and ran up to the owl before he could say "wait..."

"You need to hold him like this Mr. Wein" she told him as she handed over the owl to her teacher, to cradle it the way she did. Sighing, he told the rest of the children that "class is over today" since it was already interrupted so much that the children were very distracted. "You can all wait here until your parents get you. Use your time properly" but he knew from experience that as soon as he goes through the door they were all going to do the opposite and play.

All of them but one which was the little girl earlier. "You have to come and help me with...this..." owl that was right below his gaze. If he was really lucky "you might know how to treat it too?" he asked on their way the next room. "There should be some medicine in here" used when the children's horseplay goes bad. Hopefully it can be used for bird nosedives too.
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Postby Cheveche on April 2nd, 2012, 12:01 pm

Large dark eyes looked up to the tall man as her voice screamed in her head. Get these kids away from me! Of course, he wouldn't be able to understand her; her words escaping in hoots and hisses. And in her incoherent pleas, she heard the soft patter of small feet running up behind her and tried to brace herself for the worst. But then to her surprise, she felt two small hands under her as they lifted her up off the cold floor and offered her to the only adult in the room. Inside, she though, Whew... she's good. Relieved in the care the small girl took, and hoping that the teacher would be as gentle with her. And with the announcement that 'class was over', Cheveche's head turned from left to right in slow pace, examining the room for the first time since crashing into it. So this is a classroom? What do humans do in a classroom? Then, without much warning, she felt the air shift around her, but it was her that moved instead. The girl that held her lovingly was following after the man person out of the said 'classroom'.

Once outside the noisy classroom, the sound disappeared behind the small group and it made her feel a bit more at peace almost instantly. The quiet even played in to ease her pain a bit, though not enough to completely eliminate the ache of her body. Though now her mind wondered to another question. Where are they taking me? But it was quickly answered when they came to a stop inside another, smaller, room. Cabinets and counters lined one wall, while along the other set a few uncomfortable looking beds. Soon the little girl set her down on a counter top and hurried over to a cabinet in search of items that might prove useful in the mending of her injuries.

Returning with a few rolls of typical cotton bandages, and nothing more, the girl insisted that her teacher hold the owl so she could get at the hurt wing. And when he eventually complied, she was ready to begin, but not before saying a word or two.
"Ok, hold her still teacher." That's also when nervousness started getting the better of her. Looking up at her teacher with wavering eyes, she spoke again. "This is my first try... so don't be mad if it turns out really sloppy." Her words of uncertainty made Cheveche uneasy, causing her to squirm a bit in Louie's hands. Then fixing her eyes on the owl again, she gave one last warning. "Ok, here goes nothing." Unwinding the bandages, she started to wrap them around the owls injured wing and set it in place. Eventually wrapping it loosely under the animals chest and over its back to help hold the wing in place.

Before Cheveche knew it, her wing was set and already feeling much better, while her leg still twinged in pain. But it seemed it would go unattended when the little girl glanced up at Louie apologetically.
"...I don't know how to fix the poor birds leg though. Hope that's ok..." In Cheveches mind, she told the girl, its ok, I think my leg can heal on its own without much help... Thanks for the wing though.
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Postby Louie Wein on May 28th, 2012, 7:04 pm

There are things that Mr. Louie Wein would admit that he does not know how to do like treating an injured bird. To admit something like that in front of all those children would of course hurt his pride as a teacher but fortunately there is one student which knew how. One of those times that the teacher was happy that there is a student which knew more than he did. Even so he could still use his experience here because he easily saw that the girl was getting nervous. No surprise there if anyone remembers how the owl dropped in and terrorized everyone with its screeching.

"I won't be mad" but Louie also omitted to tell what the owl might feel about it. From all those years teaching he knew that children especially are very susceptible to pressure and giving this girl anymore would make her capable of making even the simplest of mistakes. While Louie preferred to allow his students to learn from any mistakes they make, he was the one carrying the owl and the very human self preservation instincts of course took over any professional pride he might have had.

It could have been because he was worried about the girl's words but thought that the owl might have understood it as well. The timing that it moved was too accurate with her words but there could be no such thing. If the owl really understood what was said it would be trashing around right now just as it did initially instead of taking the risk. "You're just being stupid" to believe in such things Louie Wein and while he was trying to tell himself that the owl would not do anything in his hands, the girl already quickly fixed it up.

Except for the leg. "Well do you know anyone else who could fix it, like your parents?" which are the only people Louie could think of as having taught the girl her methods. "Or..." he was just guessing with another two legged creature he was very familiar with "...you could bind the leg up tight so it can't simply move" like how some of those parents explained when they came to complain about their injured children needing special attention just to go to classes.

That would be all up to the girl and her...patient but they would only find that out if she is willing to try it. It was not as if he expected the owl to talk or give a reaction to his suggestion. After they were done in the room, Louie would take the girl and owl in his arms back to where the children were earlier announcing that "Its alright thanks to Wendy here" while he got to the front of the class. "Now that our classes are interrupted I think we should end unless you have anything you want. Maybe with this owl you were all so concerned about?" Now the owl has suddenly become the most important subject of the day and even more important was whether "anyone wants to take it home with them?"
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