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Aiden:
Carin
10:15 AM
Even a goddess has their limitations. Foremost among those limits is the free will of mortals: Carin could not make people do things with her powers. She could plead with them, or bribe them, or even threaten them, but nothing in her abilities allowed her to just make choices for them. Most of the time she was okay with this - people were happier when she didn't tell them what to do. Sometimes though she just knew something bad was about to happen and tried to inspire them to do something else, anything else to avoid that. Usually it worked out well for Carin and her follower!
This time it hadn't. She had tried to get Samantha, whose parents didn't understand her at all to stay on the main street instead of going down that alley. Carin knew that Samantha had been trying to take a shortcut to one of the goddess' shrines to hide out and pray for guidance, but she could go a few precious minutes instead of taking that risk.
Sam hadn't listened. The bullet went in, and her purse was gone. It was only fortune that meant the mugger was too busy to finish the job or 'have fun', and so had run off immediately after getting what he wanted. And so Sam stumbled along, holding herself up against the alley wall, and shuddering in pain. She held her hand against the wound trying to stop the bleeding to little avail.
And so she prayed, trembling in fear and pain, "P-Please, get help...!"
Right before Samantha lost consciousness, a mere block from her original destination, a soft voice answered "I will." A pair of small arms wrapped around the teenage girl and caught her before she could fall.
Of course, then she had to find someone who could treat a gunshot wound in this part of town.
SINIB:
Tsumiko
Just as Tsumiko was finally going to sleep, her leaden eyelids slowly closing as she prepared to sleep in the first time in at least a week, a cry for help shocked her out of her oh so desirable slumber, pulling the girl back to the reality of her existence.
She jumped up, not because she'd heard a gunshot, no, that was all too common in these parts.
She'd heard somebody cry out for help, and she needed to respond.
She reached over to the cabinet, opened a drawer, and then pulled out a needle and inject it into her arm. A stimulant, to allow her to keep going. She took it out, feeling its powerful effects as the crests worked to purge it from her body. It would only last a short while, but it was enough.
She ran out of her door, looking around for the injured person.
Hoping she wasn't too late.
Aiden:
--- Quote from: Sinib on April 18, 2019, 03:43:51 AM ---Tsumiko
Just as Tsumiko was finally going to sleep, her leaden eyelids slowly closing as she prepared to sleep in the first time in at least a week, a cry for help shocked her out of her oh so desirable slumber, pulling the girl back to the reality of her existence.
She jumped up, not because she'd heard a gunshot, no, that was all too common in these parts.
She'd heard somebody cry out for help, and she needed to respond.
She reached over to the cabinet, opened a drawer, and then pulled out a needle and inject it into her arm. A stimulant, to allow her to keep going. She took it out, feeling its powerful effects as the crests worked to purge it from her body. It would only last a short while, but it was enough.
She ran out of her door, looking around for the injured person.
Hoping she wasn't too late.
--- End quote ---
Carin
The young goddess had just finished making strips out of some cloth in Samantha's backpack to wrap and put pressure on the bullet wound. Carin knew enough from inspiring children to do well on their homework that she just needed to get her stable enough to make it somewhere someone could do more.
She was lucky, too, that she had at least enough power to make sure the bullet didn't go through something... too important. She shivered in disgust at thinking of some part of one of her followers as less important than another.
Just as she was picking Sam up to move her, the little goddess saw someone else enter the alley. "Oh, good! I wasn't expecting anyone else! Please, help me get her somewhere she can be helped."
Carin smiled, full of hope.
SINIB:
--- Quote from: Aiden on April 18, 2019, 04:05:05 AM ---
--- Quote from: Sinib on April 18, 2019, 03:43:51 AM ---Tsumiko
Just as Tsumiko was finally going to sleep, her leaden eyelids slowly closing as she prepared to sleep in the first time in at least a week, a cry for help shocked her out of her oh so desirable slumber, pulling the girl back to the reality of her existence.
She jumped up, not because she'd heard a gunshot, no, that was all too common in these parts.
She'd heard somebody cry out for help, and she needed to respond.
She reached over to the cabinet, opened a drawer, and then pulled out a needle and inject it into her arm. A stimulant, to allow her to keep going. She took it out, feeling its powerful effects as the crests worked to purge it from her body. It would only last a short while, but it was enough.
She ran out of her door, looking around for the injured person.
Hoping she wasn't too late.
--- End quote ---
Carin
The young goddess had just finished making strips out of some cloth in Samantha's backpack to wrap and put pressure on the bullet wound. Carin knew enough from inspiring children to do well on their homework that she just needed to get her stable enough to make it somewhere someone could do more.
She was lucky, too, that she had at least enough power to make sure the bullet didn't go through something... too important. She shivered in disgust at thinking of some part of one of her followers as less important than another.
Just as she was picking Sam up to move her, the little goddess saw someone else enter the alley. "Oh, good! I wasn't expecting anyone else! Please, help me get her somewhere she can be helped."
Carin smiled, full of hope.
--- End quote ---
Tsumiko
Tsumiko silently shoved her out of the way. Politeness could wait. Talking could wait. Action had to be taken now.
She projected a small medicinal knife and pressed it against the girl's flesh. "This will hurt." She muttered, ripping off a piece of her clothing and gagging the girl in order to prevent her from biting her tongue off. She'd learned about that necessity the hard way.
And then, she dug into the wound in order to extract the bullet, doing her best to avoid anything immediately fatal.
She could just pour mana into fixing any less critical fuckups.
Aiden:
--- Quote from: Sinib on April 18, 2019, 05:36:51 AM ---Tsumiko
Tsumiko silently shoved her out of the way. Politeness could wait. Talking could wait. Action had to be taken now.
She projected a small medicinal knife and pressed it against the girl's flesh. "This will hurt." She muttered, ripping off a piece of her clothing and gagging the girl in order to prevent her from biting her tongue off. She'd learned about that necessity the hard way.
And then, she dug into the wound in order to extract the bullet, doing her best to avoid anything immediately fatal.
She could just pour mana into fixing any less critical fuckups.
--- End quote ---
Carin
Carin didn't have to let this girl push her away like that, it would have been trivially easy to just not move. But the goddess didn't want to get Samantha hurt, and she recognized the look on that face too. That... really familiar face.
All she could do was watch as Samantha regained consciousness and cried out into the makeshift gag. Carin bit down on her bottom lip, and reached out to take her follower's hand. Give her something to squeeze and make it simpler to give her luck a boost too.
A goddess' blessing to smooth over any sloppiness.
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