[Sodium_noir] Saturday Evening - En route to the Sinclair Party

[Jennie Teakle]

Temple of the Five Dragons

Jack, Aurora, Christine, Mara, Mitsuko
> "The spirit is willing...but the flesh is weak." Jack
> whispers to Aurora and Christine. It's followed by a
> weak chuckle. "It never...ceases to amaze me
> how...easily damaged we are. I am...such a wuss..."
>
> He licks his parched lips. "You're both...so strong.
> But I can't take from you...what will only go to
> waste."

Christine has a glimmer of understanding of what Aurora is offering  
Jack, Something shining and insubstantial, something precious . . .  
but in this case quite useless.

>
> The magical energies that Aurora prepares to imbue Jack with are  
> met by strong energies of their own. She can sense that Spiritually  
> Jack is blazing with Ephemeral energy. But her meagre grasp of the  
> Life Sphere does reveal that his wounds are very much in the  
> physical state. Infection has set in to the poorly dressed wounds  
> on his limbs and his body in approaching shock from slow bloodloss  
> over a long period of time.
>
> In short, there is life in the wounds. Tiny, simple microscopic  
> life that is growing in the warm and well fed environment and  
> Jack's body is desperately trying to attack the invaders and that's  
> what is making him weak.


I'm sorry, thinks Christine, in despair. I don't know how to help.

And it seems that neither does Aurora despite her valiant efforts.  
Christine feels a point of pain begin behind her eyes, the start of a  
major headache. Her thoughts and her will are beginning to unravel.

> "He's called Jack ... and we found him outside .. and he's all cut  
> up .. and sick ... full of gunk ....."
>
> Shang Mio patted her hand and calmed her with a soothing sound.  
> Looking to Aurora and Christine, hardly even glancing at Mara, but  
> not taking any action.


Christine becomes peripherally aware of the newcomer talking to  
Mitsuko and this is enough to break up her already foundering  
concentration. She's still holding both Aurora and Jack's hands but  
the mental link terminates abruptly.

"Sorry," she mutters again. She turns her head a little stiffly to  
the new Monk who has arrived on the scene. An elder by the looks of  
it and from the way Mitsuko speaks to him. What the hell is he just  
standing there watching for?

"Are you a doctor?" demands Christine. "'cos I'm not and neither is  
my friend, here. This man is going to die without medical attention.  
Is there anything *you* can do?"



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