grunehexe: (pained)
Sieglinde Sullivan ([personal profile] grunehexe) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2016-06-23 08:56 pm

i'm losing blood, i'm gonna leave my bones

CHARACTERS: Sieglinde & visitors (mostly current CR but wanderers welcome)
DATE: Four days after the return to Oska, weeks following
WARNINGS: Potential squicky feet stuff
SUMMARY: A bedridden witch would appreciate some company

[The pain becomes a bit more manageable each day. Some people might say a doctor should never be their own patient, but Sieglinde was managing her own regimen, dosing herself with herbs to reduce the swelling, taking teas to numb the pain, and let sleep come a bit easier. She could have fixed it in an instant with magic...

But it was bad enough she had asked Masamune to rebreak her feet so that she could realign the bones and attempt to return the twisted and damaged muscles, tendons, and nerves back to something resembling their original position. Bad enough that she'd taken away the proof of her ignorance, an act that to her seemed just as if she was trying to hide what she'd done.

Pain was the least she could accept in return.

She wouldn't be able to put an ounce of weight on them for quite some time, even tightly bandaged and splinted though they were, and even after weeks, she knew she'd have to relearn how to walk, unable to remember well what it was like, the way one walked when you had a heel, and sole, and toes in play. But at least it was in Oska, somewhere... relatively safe.

And at least she had books, and visitors. Even though she hadn't told a single person her plan beforehand, she couldn't exactly hide it once it was all said and done... and she had requests. Like meals, and books from the library, and entertaining company. She occupies her time in that manner, curling carefully in bed so as not to twist or put pressure on her healing limbs, pouring over her most recent spellbook and occasionally getting ink all over her sheets writing notes. Chatting with those recruits she knew, as if she hadn't done what she had. Testing how her bones were healing, how the swelling was doing.

Wondering if today was the day she actually felt less doubt about what she'd done.]
sengetsu: (smile)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-04 06:50 am (UTC)(link)

When you're done eating then. Do you need any help getting ready?

sengetsu: (glance away)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-05 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)

[Kojuro skips admonishing her for talking with food in her mouth because, well, at least she's eating without argument. He pulls out the dress, marvelling a little at how different it is in construction from women's clothing in his own world. Less pattern, but far more seams - he can only imagine what a pain it must be to clean.]

This one?

[he comes over to the bed and offers her the dress]

sengetsu: (hey!)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-10 05:37 am (UTC)(link)

[it takes Kojuro a good fifteen seconds to realize what Sieg wants, because he hasn't had to dress someone else regularly for a very long time. He does get it, though, because it's not an entirely foreign concept to him. He has to juggle the dress a bit to find where it goes on - kimono are some much simpler, in his opinion - but he gets it mostly sorted, and tugs it over her arms and head]

sengetsu: (uncertain)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-10 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)

[He picks it up, but looks pretty intently dubious of it]

Ah... I'm not much good with hair, I'm afraid. [His dressing experience is entirely with dudes, so 'ponytail' is about all he knows]

sengetsu: (uncertain)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-12 04:57 am (UTC)(link)

[Kojuro considers the task in front of him for a moment. A ponytail is good enough for medium-length hair, but she has... quite a bit more than that. Quite suitable for a noble lady, but a hazard for fieldwork and gardening. Making up his mind, he grabs one of the hair ties, and then gathers her hair up. It takes him a little bit of work to separate it into three smooth sections, but once that's done, he makes quick work out of a simple braid, and ties it off]

That should suffice for now, I think.

sengetsu: (nod)

[personal profile] sengetsu 2016-07-15 03:42 am (UTC)(link)

[This, at least, is expected, and he scoops her up with an ease born of plenty of practice on Nalawi, though he's particularly careful to avoid bumping her feet. Compared to some people he's had to haul around (Masamune), she's small enough that carrying her isn't a huge burden.

It's a quick enough walk down to the greenhouses is quick - while some of their hard work has been obliterated in the time they've been gone, it's nowhere near as bad as it was when Kojuro first encountered them. Still...]

Looks like there's weeding to do. As usual.