The rain fell heavy, the wind blew hard and thunder was heard through out all the land, it had been long time since solarisclan had been hit by something like this. Thankfully the crafter prepared almost all the tents to withstand something like this. A few more hours and this storm should pass, giving Joseph a chance to sneak the blue haired girl hunching over his shoulder a chance to escape. The body of the girl named Kira felt as cold as ice pressed against Josephs body, it shouldn't take long before she lost consciousness , and Joseph would soon follow, but he at least had better immune system since he has been around sick people for most of his life.
His pace was quick as he was able to reached his small hut without drawing attention, some might find it strange to see one of the best menders of the clan walking around shirtless in the rain next to someone covering their face using his own shirt. He reached his door and which was pushed open thanks to the wind so he quickly went inside, closing the door behind him.
His living quarters had three tables, one large table with many jars filled with different kinds of berries and herbs, another one filled with odd tools that Joe uses to try new mixes of berries and herbs in order to produce new medicines, and the last one was a small dinning table. There was one furnace filled with hot coal, a small hard bed and a chest filled with Josephs personal belonging. On the other side of the room was fireplace which Joseph had ignite if he wanted to save Kira. "Come on, let's put you in the bed, quickly." He said motioning over to the bed. This was a situation where he could use the help of his assistant but for the sake Kira he could not allow anyone about presence here.
Thunder clashed up above, the rain crashed onto Solarisclan's soil. Kira took a deep breath, shivering as the cold, frigid air entered her lungs. She shivered violently, temperature dropping by the hour if not the minute. Her body was pressed against Joseph's, for warmth.
Her eyes rolled into the back of her head, the world was swooning. She heard, more felt, the commotion outside and yet no one was approaching. Maybe they assumed she was one of them? Her ears picked up on the sound of a closing door. It didn't take long for Kira to begin losing consciousness and regaining it.
"Thank you." Kira muttered, laying down on the bed with Joseph's assistance. "Don't..." Kira trailed, taking a breath, a shallow breath at that. "Don't call anyone.." Her eyes pleaded, "Please." With that, Kira closed her eyes and her breathing slowed. She was attempting to minimize the amount of energy she was using. Hopefully it helped the situation, just enough for Joseph to do something about it.
Her mind wandered off towards voices outside and the clashing and clattering of glass. It was giving her a headache but Kira remained silent, in hopes of easing the headache.
Kira's fingers wiggled a little, almost like a twitch and the shivering was not stopping. Her body temperature was still low, she needed something for warmth or she could get pneumonia, or worse. She wondered about Akira and what he would do if he found out her whereabouts.
Kira wanted to chuckle, he probably wouldn't do much. At the very least, he would get angry but she knew it would be for a good cause. After all, last time she got sick, Akira didn't abandon her as she thought he would.
Joseph walked Kira to the bed near the fireplace and helped her lay down on the bed. She looked at him with pleading eyes not to go look for someone, Joseph just smiled and took her hand, "Don't worry I won't. For now focus on saving your energy." Joseph said with reassuring gaze. The only people he would think of going to were his assistant, but he knew they were extremely faithful to the clan, and seeing a lunarisclan member would mean a straight trip to their leader. Joseph knew the life of this girl was in his hands and his hands alone. He looked over to his chest and went to grabs his warmest leather blanket to put over her, but before that he had one hurdle to overcome, one thing to demand of this girl he had just met.
Standing over the blue haired girl laid down on his bed, Joseph knelt down to her, "I need you to take those wet clothes off, while I try to start a fire" Joseph said with a serious tone, as a mender he couldn't be ashamed nor embarrassed about asking that. He had to remain firm and professional so that she would know that he has no ill intentions whatsoever. Besides this was not the first time a naked girl would be in his bed.
Putting the leather blanket over Kira to cover herself as she undressed Joseph went back to the chest, to grab some flint and steel to start a fire. He knelled down next to the fireplace, grabbing some hay from the table and began scraping a striker steel with a flint that had a piece of cloth on top of it. Joseph really had to thank the crafters of solariclan for teaching him how to start a fire.
Kira was currently trying to make the time fly by, focusing ont he sounds of splattered rain throughout the area she was currently in. How she kept getting herself in these predicaments, she would never know. She wondered if she would die here, if today would be her last. It would surely be sad, watching a grave which said "death by rain." it would be pathetic, but definitely something Kira would fall into.
The warrior barely managed to catch his request for her to take her clothes off, something she was no expecting. Sure they were wet but taking off her clothes in front of a stranger? A Solarisclan stranger no less! Not that Kira actually minded the other clan but this was just... not okay. Having your own clanmate do this for you would be fine but not someone she'd just met.
"Um..." She muttered, "No... I'm fine really. Something to cover myself with would be good enough." The warrior mentally cursed, she planned on saving her breath for later things. Now, more energy was wasted. She watched him start a fire nearby and shivered at the slight tingles of warmth. She wanted to simply approach that fire and bath in the flames, unfortunately that would result in her own death.
The fire burned bright, as the warm sensation sank into Josephs skin, it was as if he had never felt such warmness. As the fire burned Joseph stood up and went over to his chest to take out a long sleeved shirt and some long pants. As Kira gave him the answer to not undress Joseph let out a slight sigh, knowing that this could get a lot harder if she didn't cooperate. He had ways to deal with people who didn't cooperate but he preferred not to use those methods as it could leave a bad image for him.
"I wasn't asking you, I'm telling you, take those wet clothes. If you don't cooperate with me your just gonna make it harder for me to treat you. So you can either take off your clothes and put these fresh warm clothes on or I make you takes your clothes off and put these clothes on. Though I would prefer if you cooperate with me." Joseph said with an angry tone that was very rare of him. He was known to sometimes get angry when people didn't do things the way that he wanted him to, but it took him a second to realize that his tone was too menacing. He didn't want the girl to think that he was being mean to her, plus she was a lunarisclan member, if there was gonna be peace between the two clans Joseph couldn't ruin the image by making her think that solarisclan members got mad so easily. Joseph ha to reassure her that the only thing he wanted was to help.
With a sigh Joseph scratched his head and apologized to Kira, "Sorry about that little outburst. Look your life is in my hands now and I will help you get through this. I know I just met you, but I need you to trust me a little." He said with a sincere look in his eye. "Your body temperature is dangerously low right now, If we don't get you out of thos wet clothes your body temperature will not be allowed to raise, and the longer your temperature remains the more danger your life will be in. Now I certainly don't want the first invited lunarisclan member to die in my bed, so please put these clothes on." Joseph said with a reassuring smile as he placed the 2 clothing pieces on the bed and went to his table turning his back to Kira
"I promise I won't look. I'll prepare a healing potion for you know, so just change clothes and keep yourself warm with those covers." Joe said as he took out some Enan stem from bowl and began mixing up a batch for the potion.
It wasn't long until Joseph began yelling at her, stating that she didn't have a choice in the matter. It reminded her of Ookami back in the clan, he didn't yell but it irked him when someone didn't listen to his orders. To ease the tension a little, Kira blurted the first thing that came to her mind, "Pervert." It was a joke, she knew he was just doing his job but she didn't like being yelled at.
After several minutes of him ranting, apologizing, he finally handed her another set of clothes. Kira almost wanted to smack herself. She thought he asked her to take her clothes off without offering another set of clothes. The warrior really didn't want to lay naked on a bed with a simple sheet to cover herself, that would be an uncomfortable situation. One she didn't want to experience any time soon.
Her cold fingers reached for the extra set of clothes on the bed, her body was cold but she knew she had to do this. Kira began undressing and putting on the new set of clothes, they were warm. A lot better than her old clothes. Kira nodded and gave a thankful smile, "Thank you."
With a quick movement, she set the covers on top of her and bathed in the warmed. Her body was still cold but it was slowly getting warmer, a little too slowly.
She watched him take a Enan plant, which was highly poisonous but the stems were quite sought after. Lunarisclan could never grow such a plant, the poisonous leaves would kill the other ones. Littoria was only so big. It made her a little jealous, Lunarisclan had the advantage when it came to weapons but Solarisclan had the advantage when it came to mending. Both clans had their differences but surely they weren't so big that it would cause a war.
With a pair of gloves on Joseph began handling the Enan plant as he carefully took the leaves of the stem and placed them in a separate container filled more leaves stripped from Enan plants. He smiled a bit when he heard Kira thank him. He then proceeded to mashing the stem in order to mix it with other ingredients needed to create the potion. After mixing those ingredients he poured the medicine into a clean cup. During this process Joseph realized that he was coughing more than he should and those coughs felt heavy, if he didn't take some medicine for himself he could catch a cold.
He walked back towards Kira who was nodding off, he knelled down and put the cup filled with medicine infront of her mouth. "Here, drink. Power through the taste." Joseph said as an advice since the potion that was made from the Enan was known to have a strong taste, as with most potions. Joseph placed his hand behind her head to lift it up a bit so she could drink half of the potion
After drinking the potion Joseph stood up and made sure the cover was placed well, "Okay now just rest and you'll get better in no time. I'll give you the rest of the medicine when you wake up." Joseph said as he placed his hand on her forehead and caressed a little in order to help her sleep as he smiled while looking at her.
He continued to stand up and return to his table to make another potion for himself but as he walked he could feel the energy leaving his body. He looked for another Enan plant, but he had fail to realize that he had used his last Enan plant to make the medicine for Kira. Even though there was some left he wanted to leave that for Kira when she wakes up. For now rest would have to work as his medicine as he sat down on his chair close to the fire place and closed his eyes to nod off.
Kira watched as he handled the Enan plant with care, she almost wanted to smile at how carefully he was managing it. After all, she could end up dying if even a speck of the stem suddenly dropped into the mixture. In Lunarisclan, warriors are required to learn certain parts of a plant, usually the most dangerous. This is the facilitate moving around, now warriors were able to battle without worrying whether their foot would step on the wrong grass or not.
A slight cough caught her attention on the side, Joseph hunched over for a bit before resuming his work. Kira suddenly felt guilty, here she was maybe on her death bed but the mender taking care of her was slowly falling ill as well.
The warrior took the medicine in front of her mouth and took a large gulp, it tasted bitter and sour all at the same time. It was gross but she could feel the warmth travel down into her stomach and beyond. It felt nice, it felt calming.
"You should probably make some for yourself." Kira said out loud, her voice sounding much better. What with Kira's condition, she could easily fall into the hands of death but medicine was also highly effective. It takes less time to travel through her body.
"Thanks, I should probably leave soon. I don't think this clan would appreciate me being here anyway." She tilted her head to side, facing him, and smile. "You're really kind." It didn't take long for the warrior to fall asleep, the potion had a lovely side-effect of making the user fall asleep.
((We should probably end it here since she fell asleep. Maybe continue this by adding one of Yume's characters for conflict? Like maybe finding them out? Just an idea)
