Self Defense Teaching(Bones)

[Iris Timandre]

59th of Summer, 512
The Konti backed up watching Bones. She noticed that she really hurt his nose. Iris was surprsed and excited for a minute. She has never felt a rush like that in her entire life. The healer was actually smiling. Because she stood up for herself. Normally Iris was against fighting but when she was in danger she landed a blow!

The Konti never really hit anyone that hard before. And she thought to herself "I'm doing really good for my first sparring session. Maybe I'm not so bad at this after all."

That's when Iris realized what she had done. She HURT someone. That was against her religion. Instantly Iris dropped the Gladius out of her right hand and ran over to Bones. She tried to grab hold of his nose with her left hand's fingertips. The Konti HAD to make the man feel better. It took so much out of Iris, it all came crashing down.

Fun and games were over. She knew she shouldn't have tried fighting. It took so much out of the Konti emotionally. Her job was to make people feel better. Not to make them feel bad. Iris continued to try and grab hold of Bones' nose and she yelled in his face very loud trying to get him to go along with what she felt that she NEEDED to do. She had a look of worry on her face. She thought Rak'keli would be disappointed in her for inflicting pain.

"Hold still please? Let me heal you. I'm so sorry I hurt you."

[Ssafirsotibones]

Bones simply smiled, not really worried about the injury. He had gotten hurt enough, that a little pain was normal. Besides, this was nothing, compared to some of the other wounds he had received. As the woman dropped her weapon, and came at Bones, it took all of his willpower, to ignore his training, and to not instinctively dropping her with a punch to the face or jaw. Instead, he let her come in close, knowing he was not in to much danger, a professed healer, and could easily drop her later, if she proved to be a danger. As he saw her freaking out, and the panic on her face from what she had done, Bones simply smiled, showing her his nose, not expecting her to grab it. "It's not that bad. I have had plenty worse. It does not even hurt that much. It is not a big deal." Well, the last bit was a bit of an exaggeration, as it stung pretty good, but nothing debilitating. Bones did not even register the fact that she could heal the injury by touching him, and would probably dart up to grab her wrist, possibly a bit to hard, at the pain that would blossom initially, as she grabbed his nose, before she healed it. He also did not really get the concept, of how this healing magic this scaly lady said she knew, and certainly did not expect her to use it on him.

[Iris Timandre]

59th of Summer, 512
The Konti ignored Bones' comments about suffering much worse than an injured nose. All she wanted to do was make the man feel better. She continued to reach forward until she got hold of the nose. Only to feel a much larger hand. A much larger palm and longer fingers wrap around her small wrist tightly before Iris could do anything to help the man she hurt.

The grip on Iris' wrist was too much for her. She tried to pull her hand back but she knew unless Bones decided to let her go it wasn't going to happen that way. Now the healer felt bad. All she wanted to do was help Bones. She frowned and yelled out to Bones much louder than she's been speaking earlier.

"I'm only trying to help you! I won't be able to live with myself if I hurt someone by mistake and don't heal them. Just let me hold your nose for a minute."

Iris opened and closed her palm. She looked at Bones' hand wrapped around her wrist. By now she gave up hope of pulling away. She slowly tried to push forward and grab the man's nose again.

OCC: Sorry this one is pretty short

[Ssafirsotibones]

Really, Bones had not meant to overreact. But he was a warrior, with his instincts razor honed to keep him alive. Just waltzing up to him in the midst of battle, was not a smart move. Not without at least first saying what you were going to do. So how else had she expected him to react, after her messing up his nose, to come up and try to stick her hand in his face. Luckily she yelled out an explanation quickly, and Bones was still in control enough to be able to release the konti. Or as he liked to think of her, the scaly lady. Much easier to remember than konti. But she wanted to hold his nose? What the petch? That was really weird. Even weirder was that she thought it would help. Well, if it was a trick, he could easily enough get his vengeance. He lowered his hand from her wrist, looking down at her in the eyes. "Alright, jussst no funny busssinessss. And next time, give me sssome warning, before you jussst walk up and ssrow your hand in my face! Your lucky I didn't rip your arm off!" Bones lowered his hand back to his side, looking at the odd woman. He would let her do whatever trick she wanted, though she better make it fast. He was starting to think she was crazy...

[Iris Timandre]

59th of Summer, 512
Suddenly, Iris' hand falls back down to her side. And she backs away from the man. Thoughts raced through the Konti's head and her expression told the tale. She was bothered by something. The fact that she remembered the limit of her healing powers. She couldn't quite heal broken bones yet so Bones would have to stand there in pain.

Iris also had no healing kit with her so that's twice the failure. The healer felt bad. She thought she should have carried a healer's kit everywhere but since this was a sparring day she decided against it. Iris shook her head disappointed at herself.

She yelled out to Bones quickly and took two steps forward holding both of her hands out. She finally smiled for a second.. She didn't honestly expect the man to want to go through with what she wanted to do but it never hurt to ask.

"I feel so bad there's nothing I can do at the moment, Bones. Can I at least pray for you? I promise if you let me I'll leave you alone and we can go back to sparring."

Iris inched closer to Bones. She really felt as if she needed to bless Bones. Get him noticed by her Goddess. Everytime someone would go through a hardship Iris would offer them a prayer.


OCC: And the shortness continues

[Ssafirsotibones]

This lady really was silly. Not for wearing scales, Bones did the same thing in his other forms, and was actually comforted a bit by seeing this odd thing about her... Though they were not all the way like his own scales... Perhaps they were from something else besides a snake? Well, he couldn't expect a human to be smart enough to know snakes had the best scales. No, what she was being silly about, was her reaction. Really, you would think she had never fought and injured anyone before? Did she not eat meat? Did she not know that things had to die for others to live? Surely she at least ate fish, living here on the coast. Regardless, she was being silly, at being so upset. Though really, what was she apologizing for, did she think she could just touch his nose, and make it feel all better? Well know that he though of it, that was exactly what she had claimed, just moments before. Well, he would believe in it when he saw and felt it, and now she was claiming she couldn't. So silly! Bone just shrugged at her question. He did not really care. "If it will make you feel better, go ahead and pray. Ssough I don't ssink I really underssstand ssisss God or whatever you ssspeak of, and sssay you worssship." Bones would give her a few chimes to pray to her God, and perhaps explain to Bones who it was she worshiped, which he seemed ignorant of. Even though she had just explained it a bit ago... Once she was done, with her praying and everything, Bones brought his hand up to his nose, and felt it, wincing a bit. He had injured it a few times before, and recalled the last time it had been broken, which had hurt a lot worse than this. He let out a sigh, glad to realize this, and spoke loud enough for the scaly lady to hear him. "Well, at leassst it isss not broken, even if you bassshed it pretty well." Bones of course, had no way of knowing that this statement, would be such a revelation to the woman, who had assumed it was broken. Or perhaps she would think that her prayer had in fact worked, and that by praying for him, he had been miraculously been healed within her abilities of her gnosis to effect.

[Iris Timandre]

59th of Summer, 512
The Konti was hurt spiritually, she thought Bones' nose was broken and that there was no possible way she could help him. Iris slowly moved up close to Bones again. She looked the man in the face longer this time. Her gaze didn't shift. She had a target in sight. The Konti took two deep breaths.

He didn't understand Rak'keli, so maybe a prayer would help him understand some more. Iris tried move her left hand in again inches away from Bones' nose, this time slowly cautious of Bones because of the tight grip he held around her wrist the first time.

The Konti frowned and tried to explain exactly what was going on in depth to the man. Description was Iris' very best friend at times like the one at hand.

"Goddess, of healing and health. Listen very closely, Bones. I was educated in a place called the Opal Temple. Home of Rak'keli's healers, the Opal Order. I studied there for two years learning the basic medical techniques. And the Religion of Rak'keli. In order to be apart of the Opal Order you MUST have at least one mark of Rak'keli. And swear an oath to her. Even though I was born with my mark...."

Iris lifted her right hand up high so Bones could see. She turned it wrould slowly showing him the mark. There was never a case when the healer tried to hide the mark. She wanted those in Zeltiva know that she could help them.

"I still have to abide by that oath. And that is to heal. Those who are my friends and those who are my enemies. Physically and mentally heal them. And it is a very SERIOUS oath at that, Bones. One that could cost me the favor of my beloved Goddess if I break. That's why I was in a small state of panic just now. You haven't died but I caused you some pain. It's spiritually damaging to me If I don't see to it that you feel better. Or I heal you myself."

Iris' right arm dropped back down to her side. That's when the man said that his nose was in fact not broken. The Konti's nerves eased very quickly. Though she didn't show all of it her cheeks turned pink because she judged it wrong. Iris was humiliated at the same time happy she was now able to do something to help the man. Iris reached in closer to try and place her left hand's fingertips on Bones' nose. If he let her his nose would slowly begin to feel better due to her Gnosis effect and her faith in the Goddess, Rak'keli.

OCC: Creativity is up to you on how Bones feels getting healed of course<3, hoped you liked the post.

[Ssafirsotibones]

Bones caught a few words here and there... Healing... Rak'keli... Opal Temple... Most of it had little to no meaning to him... She was using all of these fancy terms, which he had no idea of its meaning. Using technical terms and names and such. Bone simply looked at the odd mark on her hand, not exactly sure what it was supposed to mean, or be. Really, she kept doing all of these odd things, like she expected him to know what it meant. Really, did she think every single person in the wide world knew about them? Such oddities were known by many, but not exactly a common study. Bones simply gave her a blank look, completely confused by her odd mannerism and showing things... "What exactly wasss ssat sssupposssed to mean? I don't know ssossse termsss, or what ssat ssing on your hand meansss. And I already told you, ssisss injury isss nossing, ssso ssere isss no point in worrying over it. You sssay you made sssome oass, but what doesss ssat mean to me?" Then she was saying again she wanted to heal him? What did that mean... Well, he would let her try, since it meant so much to her. It certainly felt odd... It was a kind of warm feeling, spreading throughout his nose... Kind of like a person was blowing their warm breath on his nose... As the heat faded, he also noticed the ache to his nose going down, settling down... Vanishing... Odd... Bones took a step back, feeling his nose, not really sure what had just happened... Truly odd... "Ssanksss I guessss... Are you wanting to ssstop here, or ssstill fight? SSough I guessss you might want to ssstop."

[Iris Timandre]

59th of Summer, 512
The Konti felt a surge of joy. A type of joy that only a healer of Rak'keli could feel. And an overall satisfaction of knowing she did something to make a difference in someone's life. To a big strong warrior like Bones the injury probably wouldn't have meant as much to him as it did to the healer, Iris.

Iris had never went through an entire day knowing she did something physical that effected someone else in a bad way. She refused to. That is why she would rather not fight for no reason.

When Bones asked the Konti if she wanted to continue fighting she shook her head left and right signaling that she had no desire to continue the dangerous sparring session. She could only take so much a day and the accident made her want to go home. Iris looked down and bent to grab her Gladius with her right hand. Picking it up Iris pushed it into the sheathe. It was sloppy, it was clear that Iris couldn't even sheathe a sword without problems.

"Thank you for the training session but I have no desire to continue this today. I'm spent emotionally."

Normally Iris would have attempted to hug a new friend but she wanted to keep her distance for now. Surely she'd see him again. Turning around slowly Iris started to walk away from Bones until she turned back and said to the man.

"If you ever need medical attention come see me. It's the least I can do for you helping me learn how to defend myself."

At that the Konti made her way around the corner with new knowledge. And hopefully spreading her name out there as a healer. She wanted people to know she was in Zeltiva to provide for them. And to make Zeltiva a better place overall.

[Paragon]

Adventurer's Loot Iris's Loot : Iris Timandre Skill XP Reward Gladius +2 Bodybuilding +1 Socialisation +1 Observation +1 Lore: Survival of the Fittest, Satisfaction of Healing Items or Consequences: Ssafirsotibones's Loot : Ssafirsotibones Skill XP Reward Intimidation +1 Gladius +2 Brawling +1 Socialisation +1 Teaching +1 Observation +1 Lore: Rak'keli's Mark, Fire of a Konti, Healed by a Konti Items or Consequences: Interesting thread. Iris, just be careful with tense hopping in future. Interesting pairing too! - if you have ANY questions or concerns about this grading, don't hesitate to PM me.