[Alements] Bloody Determined [Caelum]

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Built into the cliffs overlooking the Suvan Sea, Riverfall resides on the edge of grasslands of Cyphrus where the Bluevein River plunges off the plain and cascades down to the inland sea below. Home of the Akalak, Riverfall is a self-supporting city populated by devoted warriors. [Riverfall Codex]

[Alements] Bloody Determined [Caelum]

Postby Kyo on April 27th, 2015, 4:07 pm

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11th of Spring, 515 AV
early afternoon

Kyo had something he needed to do: he had to go in and look through every building in the entire blue city. Though he had been searching the streets for his boy and had not yet found even a hint of his scent, it was not enough. Kyo had to check everywhere. And after that was done, then he would probably check again. Just to make sure.

He just wished his leg was working right.

Coming back to the blue city, though it made Kyo very happy to be around people again, had meant getting hurt, for Sister had not wanted him to come to this place again. Before, when they had first come to Riverfall, something had been wrong here... there had been a badness in this place, and that badness had made everything not like it was supposed to be. Brother had been angry and snarling and biting, and Sister had trusted and even liked the human-forms. Because of the wrongness, he and his dogs had left the city, had waited for the bad to pass out in the grasses. As soon as it was gone, Kyo had wanted to come right back. Sister hadn't liked that, hadn't liked this place more than she'd disliked any place before. She'd torn into his leg with her teeth to show her anger.

That had been a while ago, some days, and his leg hadn't been too bad, had even seemed to be getting better... until yesterday when he went hunting and it got sore. And then this morning he had woken up and the wound had been hot and puffed-up and red. The bite had gotten him in the lower leg right around his knee on his left side, and where before it had only hurt somewhat to move his leg, now he could hardly bend it at all it hurt so much.

Such a hurting leg made it hard to go looking for his boy, but he did it anyway, limping heavily around in human-form. It would have been better to be a coyote, since he would have three other legs to walk on. But it was difficult to get in through doors when he didn't have hands, and sometimes people didn't want the coyote in their shops. So he had to be human, dressed in the ragged long shirt that hung nearly to his knees. With every step on his bad leg he grew more tired and sick of the pain, and by the time he came to the next shop --a pretty place with pretty glass and smelling strongly of wood and spices and plants-- he had to stop after he opened the door and lean for a moment before hobbling in.

There were many places for sitting in this building, and so the coyote-man fell into the nearest, panting slightly. He wiped his brow with the back of one hand. Then he looked around, and inhaled deeply.

It was hard to get past the smells in here, smells that clogged his nose. A lot of people had come into this place, and he'd have to walk around more to collect all of their scents and try to make sense of them. He wished he could be in coyote-form. Smelling things was so much easier then.

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[Alements] Bloody Determined [Caelum]

Postby Caelum on April 28th, 2015, 11:58 pm

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The owner and proprietor of Alements was standing in the middle of his kitchen balancing a ball of fire in his hand. Of course the fire was not actually resting in his palm but rather floating a few inches above it, burning itself pleasantly to nothing. As the flames faded and died, disappearing with the last of his res, Caelum concentrated on emitting more of the thick, magical substance. This time, instead of the res coming from his fingertips, it collected slowly in his mouth until he breathed it out. It grew into a feather of potential power before floating down into the granite bowl resting on the table in front of him. It layered there in the rich color of blood oranges. It was the color of tigers and of sunsets, bright and bold. It held heat and power, energy and promise that could turn toward death or delight. It was a fitting color for Caelum.


The tip of a finger slid along the lip of the bowl, pressing down with enough pressure to turn it slowly in the same direction of the Drykas Run, cycling with the seasons as he willed the res lining the edges to ignite first. They formed a ring of brilliant orange flames and flung shadows over his face, causing the pale afternoon gold of his eyes to grow bloody with fire.


Slowly, he concentrated on transmuting his res into flame ring by ring towards the center of the bowl. He envisioned the thick, defined circles that marked the lifespan of a live oak tree when the trunk was sawed through. This was the pattern he willed the fire to follow and it answered with a throaty chuckle of flames. Just as he was reaching within him for the root of his chavi, intending to attempt a reflection within the flames; but it was a different god entirely whose power thrummed unexpectedly through him.


The healer looked up even as the flames collapsed into the bowl, whispering to ashes and air when Rak'keli's grace fluttered through Caelum's concentration. He was no wizard, nor had he any true ambitions to become one. Still, he would like to become more adept at using those magics he already had at hand so that they might serve him to their limits. As of yet reimancy was one he required a great deal more training in, and it was easily dismantled by distraction. Caelum swiped a pair of thick kitchen mitts from the counter and used them to protect his hands while lifting the hot bowl. He carried it with him to the kitchen hearth and set it down, still smoldering, on the stones there where, should stray sparks fly, it would be hard pressed to do much harm. That accomplished, he shouldered open the swinging door into Alements mains to follow the floating thread of need.


He ambled around tables and chairs, flashing warm smiles to those he recognized and offering friendly nods to those he did not. It was the afternoon and so Alements was not nearly so crowded as it tended to be by night, and Elise was capably handling the small crowd. She caught Caelum's eyes in passing and tilted a dark head toward the door and the injured young man there, having expected her boss to shortly appear.


"Hi there." Caelum arrived and dropped down into a crouch in front of Kyo, Sunlight from the windows gleamed off of spring colored horns, curving back from a face dressed in an amiable smile. He searched Kyo with his eyes, curious and intent. He felt like he knew the man from somewhere, but was unable to immediately place it. "I'm Caelum, and this is my place. Can I look at your knee? I'm a physician." He raised his hands, flashing the twin gnosis of Rak'keli -- a widely known symbol in Mizahar -- like a calling card before he out right offered Kyo his hand. "Let me help you to the back, into my infirmary. Is that alright?"


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[Alements] Bloody Determined [Caelum]

Postby Kyo on April 29th, 2015, 6:47 pm

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He had closed his eyes to breathe in the smells of the place, though he didn't know why closing them might help. So he smelled the man who approached before he saw him. The one who approached smelled like sunlight. Like clear air and sunlight and brightness, though there was another scent there that he did not know --the damp after a storm?-- and more besides. His scent was strange. Not like normal. Not at all.

Kyo opened his eyes to look over at the person, and realized he knew him. It was the sun-man. The one who had said he was a friend, and who would help the sick people, the freed people. Kyo smiled, saying "I'm Kyo," when the other offered his own name, Caelum. Yes, that was right. He remembered that now.

The words physician and infirmary were ones that he thought he knew, but could not bring meaning to when he thought of them. They reminded him of a doctor, and he figured that must be what they meant. If he concentrated on the scent of this place hard enough, he thought he could smell doctor-things... like what was called medicine, buried under the smells of the rest.

Thinking of doctors made Kyo nervous for some reason that he did not know, and yet at the same time this Caelum, this sun-one, was a friend, someone that Kyo liked and thought he could trust. Caelum held up his hands, which Kyo knew meant no harm, even though when he looked at the strange marks on the sun-man's skin he didn't know what they were.

When the man extended a hand, however, the coyote-man still hesitated. He wanted to stay in this place for now, not go somewhere else, even if it was only into another room. He hadn't searched this area yet, and if there was any hint of his boy here he wouldn't want to leave it behind, not if that meant it might fade away and be lost.

"Ah, can I look here for my friend? Can I... Kyo... stay? Knee, no worry. Don't worry." He smiled again, though it hurt him to do so, not in his knee but inside his heart. He didn't like not doing what Caelum wanted, especially if Caelum was just wanting to help. But his boy. Kyo had walked here to find him, bad leg or no. He could go a little longer, or a lot longer if he needed to.

"Don't worry," he said again, grunting as he heaved himself out of the chair. "Rest, good. I'm good." His leg hurt if he put any weight on it, and he wished again that the pain would just go away, and maybe a doctor could help... but he could get help after. After he had searched this front room.

He brushed his hand over his forehead again, then looked around the shop, at the few people gathered here. When he tried to take a step, though, his leg betrayed him, stinging as if the wound was full of a hive of angry bees, and he gritted his teeth, forcing himself to limp on. He shouldn't have sat down. Now his leg wanted to rest more.

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Postby Caelum on June 11th, 2015, 8:02 pm

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“Yes, you can stay.” Daylit eyes had concern crouched in them as Caelum watched Kyo protest moving to the infirmary and struggle to his feet. Heat gathered in his hands, collecting there in tune with the compulsion of Rak’keli’s favor. It tangled inevitably with Kyo’s pressing desire to find someone.


No – not someone. Not just anyone. Kyo waslooking for a particular, specific person.


“Who are you looking for, Kyo?” The physician asked after a few ticks and stepped to Kyo’s side. Without asking, he slid a strong arm around the young man’s waist to support him as he limped. The gesture was at once genuine and matter of fact, the result of two different goddesses programming as well as Caelum’s own personal inclinations to help, to heal, to assist.


He remembered Kyo now, though there was little detail to recall save that he was sympathetic and generally helpful. Caelum did not know that Kyo was a kelvic, though it was possible he would guess as much in short order. The physician was nothing if not observant and had constructed an entire life around his ability to make swift and accurate deductions off of the information at hand. It helped in healing, in information brokering, and also just in his every day efforts to manage being a particular servant of Nikali.


Allowing Kyo to steer their search and exploration, Caelum walked slowly with his patient through Alements. Should the opportunity arise, he would attempt to guide him down the short corridor at the bar’s end to the infirmary. In the meantime his healing gnosis heated and shimmered, spilling over the merciful bounty of Rak’keli’s power from her healer and into the coyote. For now, Caelum simply directed the gnosis power toward reducing Kyo’s obvious pain and setting to work on lessening the inflammation.


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Postby Kyo on June 15th, 2015, 12:37 am

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Relief flooded through the coyote when Caelum said he could stay. He wished the other man could see how grateful he was. He knew that humans said something for this feeling, said words that meant they were happy the other had helped, had been a friend. But he didn't know how to express thank you, he didn't have the words. Still, maybe Caelum would see it regardless. As the sun-man stepped closer to help him walk, the worry --that he would not be able to finish his search, that his boy might have been here and he would miss it-- faded from Kyo's tense face, and he smiled again, brightly, at the doctor.

“Who are you looking for, Kyo?” It was a hard question to answer. He didn't have his boy's name anymore, it had been lost long ago from his mind, from too much time spent as a coyote away from everyone. From too much time being too sad to think of it. The best he could say was, "A friend. My good good friend. A boy. I need to find him. I look for him places. Look look look. Never find." This was what he did. All the time. He had come to this city for his boy. He had searched the wild for him for so long. So long.

At least it was easier to walk now. Caelum was strong enough that Kyo did not worry about leaning on him as he might have someone smaller. And the pain was... less. Not gone, but better. He thought it might be because he didn't have to step so hard on his leg anymore. He had been right before-- more legs were better for this. Or maybe it had to do with Caelum himself. There was something warm and even brighter than normal about the healer's hands as he helped Kyo along. The coyote-man didn't know anything about what a doctor could do, besides look you over and say you were good or bad, but just being near the sun-man he felt better, though the bright glowing of those hand-marks confused him. He relaxed further, tightness he hadn't felt before falling away and loosening him up.

Slowly they went through the store from end to end. The sun-man seemed to let him go where he wanted, and as they went Kyo searched with his nose more than his eyes. This place was full of scents, more than some of the other buildings he had been in. A lot of people had been in here before, some of them so far away, so far back, that he couldn't make sense of their smells anymore, just a jumble. Once he caught a scent that reminded him of something from long ago, and he stopped and inhaled deeper, trying to fix it in his mind. But there was not the scent he was looking for, there was not his boy. There was never his boy, no matter where he went. He shook his head, glancing one last time around the shop.

There was no reason to stay in the front now, and so when they went towards the place leading to what had been called the infirmary, he went quietly, without dragging along. The nervousness came back, like an itching that made him think something bad was coming. But he trusted Caelum. Caelum was good. He had already helped.

OOCI'm not really certain what the infirmary looks like; I couldn't seem to find a description in the Alements location thread.

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