The Early Medic Days - D26/M01
Day 26 / Month 01
3. Desis of Lisanu 1082 I did not dream anything. Probably I had fallen unconscious and later asleep... I awoke at approximately 24 in a well temperatured room, the curtains pulled close, the bed of an ungodly softness and reassuring warmth. I was woken by horribly loud noises as if someone was tearing down a house, or building one up. Oh God, where was the baby?! Relieve washed over me as I found it in a crib next to my bed. Why was I in a bed? Had I not just been in Arduni, leaning against the rough fur of the boar? This was definitely not my room in the Medic Guildhouse in Canero. Where was I? The room looked clean and new. With only one window... My whole body ached and my limbs and head were heavy but I pulled myself up. All my belongings were in this room. I wore simple black clothing... What had happened? Had it all been a terrible nightmare? No... I would not have been in such pain and weariness... and the baby would not have been there... I opened the door of my room and found a staircase... Carefully I sneaked down... Everything looked new... there were no dead people and no rats... One wall of the room I entered now was missing... but it was building up itself it seemed. Where was I? It appeared I was in something like a Pub that was just getting built... there was a counter, some chairs some tables... I found toilets and a cloakroom... also another staircase which led to ... 4 more rooms that had beds and a night-stand, a chair and a little chest at the foot of each bed... This was not a Pub... this was going to be an Inn... But what was I doing here? When I looked out of the window I saw a person dressed all black and had a slight suspicion... Another window showed me stables and my boar and in the background... the city of Arduni. I was still here... only a bit further away... I used my staff to prop me up when I sneaked out to the person in black... Dúath... She told me this was supposed to be my save heaven while I investigated the events of the plague. The baby was going to stay here as a reminder to my deal and a shimmer of hope for me. She sometimes had such a horrible way of encouraging people... She would take care of it physically over the day and I would take care of the psychological part of parenting over the night, as she did not allow me to be in Arduni at night when the rats were free to roam. This was horrible... I had to admit it was good to have a place to return to and run to for help if I needed it, but my self-confidence still told me I had unmistakeably doomed 33 helpless souls... I went to bed again. I was just still to weak to do anything... Not that I would be any better at doing just something with a bit of sleep... I was a failure... as a Sídhe... as a Mage... as a Medic... as a living being... I was so useless and tired... I pulled the crib closer to my bed and gently caressed the sleeping infant's head...
End of Day 26 / Month 01
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