Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Wh-what?" I ask, confused.

 

Rineth reaches out telepathically.
"Hello? Are we in the way? Pardon us, if that's the case, we'll move when Ihra wakes up."

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"Look at her. She grew a few flowers that were extremely poisonous. We both started to succumb, but Stephanie burned them before I was severely affected. Give her time, she's just asleep. Waking her would speed up the poison and stop her heart."

 

"Actually, Stephanie wanted me to grow them so she could study them. I killed them off when you told me they were harmful," Artemis says, "I might be able to leech the poison from Ihra, actually."

 

"You can try, but if you speed up her heart rate, you'll kill her."

 

Artemis places a hand on Ihra's chest, and focuses. Artemis' hands begin to glow green, and the poison begins to drain from Ihra.

 

The person seems to be a woman in dark robes. She also has a belt with many potions attached to them.
"No, I came here to help. I was with Eras, Idala and Xephyr when a wyvern I was flying on pretty much fell out of the sky. I was ok but the wyvern wasn't. I could have come sooner, but I wanted to help the wyvern."
Idala turns to them and says, "Mother!"
The woman turns to Idala and says, "Sorry, I didn't mean to be gone for so long."
"The wyvern is fine?"
"Sort of. I managed to heal its wings and most of the scars. The missing tail was a bit of a problem. I needed some help with that."
A wyvern swoops down and lands. It looks slightly scarred. Its tail seems slightly strange. Something seems unusual about it.
The woman jumps off the white creature, which is now floating in the air.
The creature then floats towards Aura and looks at her. It seems they are communicating... somehow.

 

The sated poison is siphoned, but it smells nice still.
Ihra sniffs at Artemis' hand.
"Rrgh... not the flowers again... Rineth... Are you okay?"
"Yes, Ihra. We're fine."

"Forgive me for the suspicion. It's been a long couple weeks."

 

Artemis looks a little paler, but seems fine.

"Looks like I helped!" Artemis says, smiling.

 

"The poison is sated, it won't spread. The pleasant scent is all that remains."
Ihra hugs Artemis.

 

Artemis hugs back.

"I ship it." I say quietly.

"She's your girlfriend you tool." Abigail says to me.

"I interdimensionally ship it." I respond.

Abigail whacks me around the head.

 

Ihra follws suit using her staff.
"I just appreciate she likes plants and stuff!"

 

"Plants and stuff is sort of my deal. I don't just like them." Artemis says.

I pretend to get knocked out.

 

"Aj, get up. I didn't hit you that hard. There's always this..."
She knocks a tree down without reverting her staff.
Then she goes back to hugging Artemis.
"Thanks for the poison help. It just smells so nice."

 

I remain silent on the floor.

Artemis seems a little offended at one of her trees being knocked down.

"Perhaps I could make a perfume out of the flowers, if I could remove their poisonous aspect." Stephanie says.

 

"The only way we know is sating them with blood."

Ihra regrows the tree.
"Sorry Artemis. Aj was overreacting."

 

"I'm sure there's a way of extracting the poison." Stephanie says, summoning a flower. It seems to be protected by a shield of sorts.

I get up, but remain silent.

Artemis hugs Ihra.

 

Rineth suddenly looks panicked.
"Ihra? Problem."
"What?"
"This form is slipping. I... I need to confess something."
"What?! What's wrong?"
"I... This is something I posessed. This body died. The real me is slipping out of stasis."
"WHAT."

 

"Plot Twiiiiiiiiiiist!" Abigail shouts excitedly.

"There is no plot to reality, Abigail. Just a series of events." Stephanie says.

Abigail whispers something to Stephanie, and her eyes widen.

"So, you're not really dead?" Artemis asks.

I remain silent.

 

"Well... I may as well be. My true body? Is in the middle of the Hive. They couldn't accelerate my stasis. I've outlasted a generation, but they've never moved- I'll be killed the moment I'm out of stasis. Then, Ihra can't bring me back. She wouldn't have seen it."

 

"So...it's up to us to protect Ihra from now on?" Artemis asks.

"I can fit the role of dragon." Abigail says happily.