Reliving the Nightmare, Healing the wounds(closed)

[Varys]

OOC:This is after the chasing Varys event.

Varys layed in the medical cot. His wounds had been tended to, the healers doing their duties and being somewhat boggled at the damage done by the Blade of 80 Days. Still they put their energies into it and healed the physical wounds. The mental ones were still being dealt with.

Varys thrashed about in the medical cot, landing deeply into another of his nightmares. He had never been transformed while he was asleep and now there was a small battle for dominance inside his mind. Todesknochen wanted his body back, he wanted his simple minded vengence for those that hurt him. It hated everything, no that wasn't entirely true. It liked one thing

Ribbons.

Pretty little flowing ribbons.

It loved making everything into ribbons.

It hated anything that couldn't be made into ribbons.

The beast struggled within the mind with Varys, but it's simple nature was causing it to lose. It just wanted to make people into ribbons after all. Or dogs into ribbons. Or anything into ribbons. Varys could promise the beast that, Varys could give Todesknochen many targets to be made into ribbons. The small disaster was avoided, Varys would keep his mind.

The man's eyes blinked open as he looked up from the floor, he had fallen off the medical cot in his struggles. He had no clue where he was, but he did have small fleeting glimpses of what transpired He also had a very distinct remembrance of someone's face, it was odd because he didn't know the person...

Varys stood, the blood soaked bandages on his body slowly turning more and more red now, and he looked around. Perhaps there was someone here that could tell him exactly what happened. Varys would very much like to know.

[Midori]

She could heal. She was good at it and that was what had brought her to the medical wing today. Being knew Midori had yet to meet a lot of people and she still wanted to be of help in anyway she could be. And her summon could heal if she called her up and that was exactly her intention if she was needed in the recovery wing.

She walked through the area looking into the rooms and the long halls of beds some with and some without patients. She came across one cot and saw a man just getting up but his bandages were soaked in blood. She walked over and looked up at him softly.

"I can heal if you, if you let me. You should sit down. You are losing a great deal of blood sir." she said softly tucking her loose green hair behind her slightly pointed ears.

[Varys]

"Pretty little ribbons...."

The words spilled quietly from Varys' lips as his eyes fell upon the small girl. Such a foolish girl, the other staff must not have told her to go near this cot. They must not have told her that this man can easily become such horrid and frightening things. That he was nearly Nightmares incarnate.

And Varys was happy for that. A crooked and frightening looking grin erupted on his face. He supposed he would comply, the nightmares didn't like that but they didn't know what he was thinking either.

"Fine fine little girl I'll be nice, but you must tell me what happened to me. There should be a medical report around here somewhere, yes? You must tell me...Do tell me."

Varys spoke as he sat. The tone and obession in his voice was...odd to say the least, but likely no more so than some of the other students of the academy. Still Varys did want to know what had happened to him, he only remembered bits and pieces from it.

[Midori]

She didn't understand the pretty ribbons comment but he needed to be healed and so she put it out of her mind for now. She smiled as he sat down and she knealt in front of him and she closed her eyes concentrating for a moment.

Luna appeared next to her. The woman with long flowing white robes and blonde hair that touched the floor. She smiled at the boy in the cot and cast a spell over him. Small orbs of light flowed from her body and into the body of the boy on the cot.

With his wounds no longer bleeding she dismissed her summon and sat down on the bed beside him grabbing some guaze. She looked behind him and began unwrapping his bandages so she could replace them.

"Let me care for you first, then I'll find your report." she said softly as she lifted his arms slightly so she could change his bandages.

"I'm Midori, what is your name?" she asked softly.

[Varys]

Varys felt himself instantly start glaring at the smiling woman type thing that appeared next to the girl. He didn't trust such brightness, he didn't like it. It was the opposite of all he had known and he hated it. Varys flinched as each of the orbs got near him. Had he not promised to be good he would have lopped the shining womans head off.

Varys felt his skin pulse slightly. Schrägstrich had recieved the image of lopping the womans head off and wanted to fullfill that wish, Varys grimanced slightly and kept his nightmare down....for the moment. Varys' eyes soon reopened to see the girl begin unwrapping his bandages. She would find that the wound was still under the bandage, the Blade of 80 days effects still lingering slightly. The wound would only be a fraction of it's original size now and already scarring.

Scarring to match the many whip scars that covered his back. The many lines of raised flesh that indicated his many whippings and beatings. His training, he did love Master for helping him. Even if it caused so much pain.....

The girl spoke her name, pushing Varys back into thoughts of the real world. Midori was an odd name, then again, so was Varys. Varys soon returned to his crooked and disturbing grin before responding.

"I am Varys...Little Midori..."

[Midori]

Carefully trying not to cause this man any pain she carefully unwrapped his wounds. Seeing the scarring she smiled weakly. At least it was healing. Her magic might have helped she wasn't sure but she wasn't going to dwell on it either.

She carefully began to wrap him up again in the new bandages as she heard his name. And.. little Midori? She smiled that cute sweet smile that could melt a heart as cold as ice.

"Little Midori, I like that Varys." she said with another smile. She saw the scars on his back but chose not to say anything. Most people with scars like those didn't usually want to discuss how they were gotten.

"Where are you from?" she asked as she still worked on wrapping his wounds and trying to be careful. Her adept fingers working over the gauze to make sure it fit snuggly.

[Varys]

"Here.... Always here...."

Varys almost spat, he didn't particularly like the floating island but he had never known different either. Still he supposed he did like the darker sects of the city than the lighter ones. He certianly didn't enjoy the actual academy either even if he did enjoy some of the activities and people it offered.

"Not exactly here...But this island always. Don't ask me where exactly, I don't know... I only know the so called bad places. Hardly bad at all..."

Varys was irked slightly at the innocent smile. He didn't particularly like that this one was carefree. After all he certainly wasn't by what right was anyone else to be? Still that anger paled in comparison to the need to find out what happened.

"Could you find that report now, I should like to know what happened to me...I need to know..."

[Midori]

So he didn't like to talk about where he was from and that was okay with the green headed girl that sat on the bed next to him. She couldn't help but feel like he really didn't want to know anyone but she wasn't one to be deterred. Annoying yes. But that was who she was.

"Sure thing." she said as she tied off the bandage.

She stood up gracefully and moved around the bed and picked up his chart. She moved back to him and sat down flipping through the pages moving past all the medical garbo all the way to the report on what happened to him. Without reading it she handed it to Varys.

"I believe this is what you are looking for."

[Varys]

Varys took the report quickly, more snatching it from her hands than anything else. He absolutely had to know and he began reading, mummbling the words to himself the entire time. Most of it was inaudible but some parts would be easily over heard.

"Killed two students.......burst into courtyard....assualted......subdued......three students....."

There were of course more details to the report but Varys was suddenly beginning to understand the feeling of a new nightmare and more importantly how it came to be. Varys grinned widely at the thought of rending the two poor fools. He even let out a small chuckle.

"Oh my, this is grand, you really should read little Midori. It's a good read it is." Varys offered his usual crooked and demented looking smile to her, probably trying to reassure her. Though from the look of it that might be hard to tell.

[Midori]

Her eyes could only open wider as he began to talk to himself while reading the report. It seemed that he was the one as far as she could tell that had killed two students and subdued three. She sighed inwardly trying to figure out why this man wasn't showing the least bit of remorse for what he had done. She now understood that he was not the kind and happy soul that she had assumed she would meet here. Instead he was one that enjoyed destruction and pain.

She swallowed hard and looked at him he was giving her one of those smirks she thought was tainted by the pain of his wounds but now she was realizing that it may have been because he was plotting or planning something. She smiled back at him as happy as ever.

"I think it is rather personal. I should not read it. Would you like me to get you anything? Food or water? Anything really?" she asked softly as she looked up into his eyes with her own large innocent ones.

[Varys]

"Would I be offering it if I thought it personal? No not at all, it isn't personal I really do insist you read."

Varys frowned visibly as Midori changed the subject. He didn't like that in the least. Why did she reject him so? He was being nice, he was offering what he liked to her, why couldn't she understand that? It never occured in his mind that the innocent didn't like such things. Perhaps it was because his innocent stage was rather short lived.

"How about I just have your attention for a moment yes?"

Varys nodded to himself, answering for her almost before putting his right hand behind his back. It obviously going to be some kind of magic trick. Though if she had some idea of what Varys could do she might run away quickly.

"Don't mind the sounds now..."

Varys spoke as he grimanced and the sounds of wet skin twisting and bones elongating and cracking began echoing in the small room. It would go on for a full thirty seconds or so, it only being one arm before the elongated and clawed arm of Schrägstrich struck out quickly, it's clawed point sinking into the wood work next to Midori. Rather close to her even.

Varys only smirked in response to his trick, his eyes watching her face for the reaction. He hoped it would be a good one.

[Midori]

"Well if you insist." she said taking the report from him gently. She flipped back to the page he would be wanting her to read before he asked for her attention. Sure, she would give it whole heartedly. She didn't mind in the least really because she was here to make people feel better.

"Allright, you have my full attention." she said setting the file down to the side.

His right hand went behind him and through he told her not to pay attention to the sounds she couldn't help it. They were horrendous. She knew those sounds all too well. The hunters in her forest came back with their game and when they cleaned it.. many times it made sounds like that. But she waited still.

Suddenly his hand came out. Only now it was not his hand but a claw. A sick and ugly claw perhaps but she was more fascinated by the fact that he could do that to his body. No wonder those words he had said earlier described him. The claw stuck in the wood on the bed right next to her and she jumped slightly.

"May I?" she asked softly as she tentativly reached forward touching the claw and what of the arm was transformed. It was amazing. She was truly intrigued. Most might be scared out of thier minds, and yes she was innocent but she wasn't scared of his. He wasn't threatening her.

And so instead of cowering in hear she felt it with her fingers. Softly she ran her finger tips and palms over between the skin of his normal arm and the skin of the new claw.

[Varys]

"You little whore...."

Varys spoke quietly at first. She wasn't afraid and it infuriated him. Why wasn't she afraid she should be! Everyone should be afraid they should know better.

The sounds of his skin twisting and his bones breaking and readjusting came on louder as they started again. It would start with his left arm...Then his head...then his body.. then his legs.

Schrägstrich was coming...

"You little whore..."

Varys spoke again, his voice torn by pain and disfigurement. IT was becoming almost ghostly and ethereal now. The claw that Midori would be touching would lash back violently, the razors edge of it's claw slicing her hand with relative ease.

Varys would then align his clawed arms to strike at Midori, to puncture her shoulders and pin her to the ground. The transformation would still be occuring at this point but it would be going through it's final throws. Soon enough the black orbs of Schrägstrich would be staring at her unmercifully and knowing it should find fear soon.

[Midori]

"...whore but I thought.."

Her hand jolted back quickly as the blood leaked from the fresh wound. She looked up at him seeing him transform into this beast. The rest of the beast that belonged to that hand was coming out and she could only watch in horror.

He began to move and she watched him with her eyes and the moment he was about to pin her down she rolled away from him. Performing a rather nifty flip she spun around and stood at the foot of the bed.

"Well now, that isn't very friendly at all is it? Here I was only trying to be kind. And then you go off and attack me. Why because I wasn't scarred? Well, I'll have to tell you that, I've lived in a forest my whole life and I've seen things that would make you shake. Even in this form. So, please. Just stop." she said as she waited.

She didn't move she just watched him. She sure as heck wasn't going to touch him again. She lifted up her shirt her pierced navel showing the small emerald gleaming in the light as she ripped the material with her teeth. It came away easily enough and a strip of fabric was in her hand leaving her navel exposed but her shirt still on.

Carefully not taking her eyes from him for a moment she wrapped up her hand.

"You know, you should not have done this. Now, the nurses will have to work even harder to get you better. How stupid." she sighed.

[Varys]

(Attribute shift of Transformation. +7 Dex -7 Con)

The slug like body allowed Schrägstrich to move in almost any direction without restraint, such was the flexible nature of the beast. The two claws wrenched themselves from the wooden floor. The body twisting and glaring. The girl was definately afraid now, she was simply using anger to mask it.

There was an odd clicking sound emitting from the beast now, it would be impossible to tell, but this was it's laughter. A chuckle of amusement and insanity. The prey wouldn't go down as easily as could have been, but Schrägstrich still wanted to pin her with it's claws. There was an incessant need for that to happen, and with the racking pain of the transformation gone...He would strike her.

The claws lanced out again, lightning swift and aimed alittle wide of the target. Schrägstrich knew the little whore would likely try to dodge again and moving the strikes outward slightly would catch her in that action. After that all he had to do was push her down and hold...That's all he wanted....