Characters: Gorobei, Komachi and whoever decides to come help them.
Content: After hearing a distress call, a few kind-hearted people come to the rescue of one hurt little girl.
Setting: Melior, where most of the city is destroyed due to the Silvana explosions.
Time: Evening
Warnings: Possibly more Komachi-torture...?
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Come all without, come all within. )
"Uh. Gift shop, gift shop...." He cast around for a building matching the description he'd heard over the network. He felt he could rule out the possibility of this being a prank - the man had sounded far too serious for this to be some sort of sick joke.
There! That building just might be what he was looking for! He picked his way through the debris littering the ground, working his way over to the shop.
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"Mn? Gorobei? Where're we?" she mumbled, rubbing her eyes with one hand - she'd tried with the other first, forgetting momentarily that that would hurt, and the pain brought her more fully awake.
The sound of an unfamiliar voice made her jump, and she looked nervously around the shop, glad of the protective arm Gorobei had around her.
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She didn't know Melior very well, but she did know where the spider attack had been. She saw it from the air when they had landed, and she'd seen the edge of the damage earlier as well.
She had to help.
She ran the last half of the way there, journal and medical kit all bundled up together in a backpack. Yuna - from her ship - and a spiky haired man she didn't recognize were heading into the shop. That had to be the place.
"Hello! Mr Gorobei? It's Rhyme."
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Still, he wasn't about to leave now. He'd stick around and do whatever he could.
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At Komachi's question, Gorobei offered her a small smile, although he was unsure how well she could see it through the darkness of the night. "We're taking shelter in that gift shop you found earlier. I've found a few people willing to help you out, they're just outside now."
As the volunteers started to come closer to the shop, Gorobei held Komachi a bit tighter in reassurance. "These are good people," he promised Komachi, although he trying to settle his own fears with those words just as much.
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She heard Gorobei's voice. She didn't know him very well at all - she'd only been on the ship for a week or two at the outside - but she was pretty sure that was him. She scrounged her way through he glass.
Gorobei's leg was bloody, but the blood seemed to be more caked on, the girl whoever, her whole arm was bloody and it looked far more recent and fresh.
"Are you alright?" She looked at the little girl, worried. The started to open up her medical bag. Of course she wasn't alright, but calm patients were better patients. "I'm Rhyme and I'm here to help you." Even though she was really nervous, she put on a cheerful face for her patient.
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Kneeling down next to Rhyme, Yuna sat the mana crystal down and allowed it's glow to illuminate the dark room.
"Hey, what's your name?" The brunette asked once she glanced over to Phoenix again with a bright smile. She could tell he was little nervous about being here but she was glad that someone else came to the aid of this man and what she assumed to be his daughter.
"We might need your help getting them out of here. It's not safe to be in this area."
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He nodded. "I'll do all I can."
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She nodded nervously in answer to Rhyme's question, half turning her head to face the older girl, but keeping the rest of her body pressed close against Gorobei. Biting her lip, she managed a feeble smile to match Rhyme's. "I'm okay," she lied in the bravest voice she could muster, though the blood on her arm and clothes and the tearstreaks on her cheeks clearly gave that the lie.
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Eyeing the mana crystal cautiously, he asked, "What's that going to do to help?" Growing up in a farming community had made the man paranoid about anything magical. He didn't trust these people much, maybe Rhyme a bit more than the complete strangers, and if one of them happened to be some kind of super-powered mage, he wouldn't hesitate to cut them down and run for it.
Phoenix, who seemed to be a bit nervous, was making Gorobei nervous too. "Were there a lot of people out there? Anyone trying to fix this mess? People salvaging the abandoned stores for valuables?"
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She did look back at the mana crystal. "Well, it's good for light, or if I get really tired Mr. Gorobei."
She didn't know anything else, and to be honest she was much more focused on Komachi than anything else. She needed to get a better look at what was wrong before she could decide if they needed to go back to the Way or not.
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"Do not worry, sir!" The brunette said towards Gorobei with such a sweet smile. "I'm just making sure we have enough light to see..." She trailed off for a moment, her bi-colored eyes focusing upon what Gorobei's wounded leg.
"How badly were you injured...?" Yuna asked as she approached him. She knelt down next to the samurai, trying to tell if the blood was his own or not.
"You two must have been trapped here during the fire fight between the Silvana and those machines, am I right?"
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