| "I fear that I have grave news...." she begins.
The tale unfolds.....
"It's.....my daughter?" the master of Croix Keep whispers, fearing the
worst.
Li'reth
It's a common factor.....
Can't seem to escape it....no matter how hard one tries. Even with the
assets at our fingers.
No amount of ammunition can stop it. High technology? No. Nor magic
in the end.....
But....eh....
No, let me start from the beginning:
Probe worked frantically to save the fading life force of Andrea 2.
Perhaps if he had access to a full medical facility, he could have done
more than just slow the fading.....
As it was, the mage that had injured Andrea 2 so gravely had apparently
mistaken Evis 7 as being a mere human being, for the first fireball that
he'd managed to thrown (the only one he'd been able to throw) had been
at Andrea well enough....but Evis 7 had thrown herself in front of the
fireball. The concussive blast had thrown the female Golem to the ground
in a flaming mass, apparently dead. Now, from what I've been told by my
love Ke'lan fireball spells of Terra Prime origin don't have a concussive
effect. But this is another universe entirely...... The blast had also
blown Andrea 2 off her feet and slammed her into the ground forcefully.
She landed in a broken heap....
Later, I was told by the other Andrea that she'd had this silly notion
that being armed with a dagger meant that no bandits would dare attack
her....for she thought herself well versed in it. This was back at the
very beginning when she'd gone out to find romance...and got drawn into
present circumstances. This was due to the fact that her father had so
sheltered her throughout life that her nearest experience with combat was
. . . romance novels. While Andrea had since been disabused of this notion
about her battle prowess the same had not been true with Andrea 2. Evis
7 had been at Andrea's side trying to protect the young woman, but had
been horrified to see the young girl moving to attack with nothing more
than her dagger. Andrea 2 had gotten caught up in the heat of the moment.....
"It....doesn't look very good....does it?" Andrea 2 whispers from where
she lay after Probe applied the last application of a medical instrument
found in most Star Trek shows.
"No..., it doesn't," Probe said weakly, surprised that Andrea 2 was
awake (much less able to speak).
"I can't feel my legs...." she chuckles softly, "I think I know what....that
means. And I'm....cold..... Damn."
"And there's nothing you can do to fix it?" she asked ironically, already
sure of the answer.
After all, she reasoned, nobody on her world was able to fix
a broken back and severe burns which where beginning to make themselves
known....now that the shock was wearing off.....
"Maybe......there is....." Probe says slowly, looking over at the demifox
mages.
He himself kept (under TIGHT seals so as to spare some of his friends
the pain it cause them) a quantity of the needed materials for this to
work. And work it had in the past for Queen Astra and King Willian la Post.....
Eyes grow wide when Probe explains his idea.
-
 Probe, not
wanting to deny his patient the dignity of choosing something so important.....asked
Andrea 2 if she wished to this rather unorthodox means of treatment.....
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