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[Sept. 26] [Original] Visit to the Witch Doctor
Title: Visit to the Witch Doctor
Day/Theme: Sept. 26, 2009 "she smiles like the knife"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Baruch, Auro, a local witch doctor
Rating: PG-13
She smiles and the look is so sharp it could saw through bone. Baruch calls the woman a witch doctor and Auro assumes he should know. It seems he's dealt with mystics and mages of practically every kind before. He seems ready to deal with anything that comes their way, even if he's not going to be patient with it. Auro likes him despite his strangeness. He has always found priests to be interesting. It must be some combination of qualities necessary to interest a person in the post that create this magnetism.
Baruch holds out his arm. The bandage is bloodied. The thorns cut deep and Auro did not have the skill the deal with the wound as thoroughly as he would have liked to. He is a scholar, a student. His first aid training is negligible. For the first time the lack leaves him wanting.
Baruch winces as she unrolls the bandage. Between them he and Auro have removed all the thorns- it seemed a bad idea to let them stay- but their actions have only aggravated the bleeding. "They were gorse thorns," Baruch explains, "So there shouldn't be a problem of poison."
"Gorse has no poison, but an open wound can create a poison of its own if it becomes infected," the woman counters. She had seen many injuries in her day and sicknesses as well. She has no formal training in the healing arts and has never set foot on the grounds of a medical academy of any kind. She is not the kind of person Auro would have chosen as a healer had any other options been available to them, but he and Baruch are in the wild regions now and cannot afford to be picky. They are lucky that Baruch knew she was here. Auro has never passed through this region before and even Baruch is merely a traveler here. The Ghirans are vast and these are not their lands.
"I will have to stitch this up," the doctor informs them.
Auro shudders. "I cannot watch that."
The doctor pours Baruch a glass of wine and washes her hands in a basin. She lights incense and it starts to fog the air. She sits back down with her needle and thread. Auro, choking, looks away.
Day/Theme: Sept. 26, 2009 "she smiles like the knife"
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Baruch, Auro, a local witch doctor
Rating: PG-13
She smiles and the look is so sharp it could saw through bone. Baruch calls the woman a witch doctor and Auro assumes he should know. It seems he's dealt with mystics and mages of practically every kind before. He seems ready to deal with anything that comes their way, even if he's not going to be patient with it. Auro likes him despite his strangeness. He has always found priests to be interesting. It must be some combination of qualities necessary to interest a person in the post that create this magnetism.
Baruch holds out his arm. The bandage is bloodied. The thorns cut deep and Auro did not have the skill the deal with the wound as thoroughly as he would have liked to. He is a scholar, a student. His first aid training is negligible. For the first time the lack leaves him wanting.
Baruch winces as she unrolls the bandage. Between them he and Auro have removed all the thorns- it seemed a bad idea to let them stay- but their actions have only aggravated the bleeding. "They were gorse thorns," Baruch explains, "So there shouldn't be a problem of poison."
"Gorse has no poison, but an open wound can create a poison of its own if it becomes infected," the woman counters. She had seen many injuries in her day and sicknesses as well. She has no formal training in the healing arts and has never set foot on the grounds of a medical academy of any kind. She is not the kind of person Auro would have chosen as a healer had any other options been available to them, but he and Baruch are in the wild regions now and cannot afford to be picky. They are lucky that Baruch knew she was here. Auro has never passed through this region before and even Baruch is merely a traveler here. The Ghirans are vast and these are not their lands.
"I will have to stitch this up," the doctor informs them.
Auro shudders. "I cannot watch that."
The doctor pours Baruch a glass of wine and washes her hands in a basin. She lights incense and it starts to fog the air. She sits back down with her needle and thread. Auro, choking, looks away.