Minsc Joins The Party! [Complete]

[swordsnotwords]

Characters: Minsc and Boo! (and Farinelli, and Tony Tony Chopper)
Setting: Entrance Room
Time: Night 002
Summary: Minsc arrives, as does an unconscious Farinelli; a panicked Chopper arrives to patch her up as best he can.
Warnings: Contains Minsc and his fiery temper.

Comments

[magicmelodic]

Everyone had their expectations of her here. Everyone wanted something. Not a single damned--or would it be dissonant?--minute could go by without Brill prodding her about developing her sorcery, Florenda scuttling behind her to try and serve her, a few guards accompanying her everywhere she went. This was ridiculous! How was she expected to get anything done if she never had an unpressured moment alone? Even riding down into the orchard didn't give her any alone time, The scorching heat and choking dust didn't give her any help either, despite the change of scenery; even the land itself expected that she bear up under the oppressive weather and not collapse of dehydration or heat stroke

[someonecalladr]

Chopper had the unfortunate luck of being in the kitchen, snacking his small self to contentment as night fell. His ears twitched as the sounds of construction began, and his heart sank in his chest. Not again... it was starting all over again. Throwing out the remains of his fruit, the diminutive deer had began to make his way back through the house, hoping to get upstairs before he encountered anything scary. He made it through the dining room without a hitch, but when he entered the grand room, his resolve began to fail him. He was being watched. His instincts were sure of it. He looked about, panicked - it seemed like it did last night, but something was different. Terrified, his tiny feet dashed without any prompting - straight for the entrance room

[swordsnotwords]

It took a long time for Minsc to give up his task of breaking down the door. The longer he went on, the angrier he got, even for the fact that he had no impact on the door whatsoever. Magically enchanted? Perhaps so! It was the most logical explanation, at least where he came from. Pretty soon, he had lowered his sword, breathing heavily. "It is no use, Boo. This ranger has not had his sleep, and this door does not yield to pointy sharp steel. We have been trapped here, my hamster friend! Trapped, and separated from our witch! A tragedy if ever there was one

[someonecalladr]

Well, that hadn't taken long at all. The night was still young, and Chopper was already in a spot of trouble. On the one hand, there was a large, loud, armored, extremely scary man pointing a big sword at him and shouting about justice. This in itself was a (literally) very large problem, but to compound matters, he was stopping Chopper from treating the poor woman who was laying there, dying on the floor. He didn't want to start trouble, but if he didn't act fast, there was a very real chance that the woman could die

[magicmelodic]

No running around too much, or lifting anything too heavy.... Anna nodded in response, though it made her headache worse. She could probably handle that, right? Even riding a horse didn't seem to fall under either of those. She wondered if that meant no magic.... Well, she'd do what she had to do, if she needed to defend herself. After all, if that arrow was something from the Dark Monks.... Well, they could all very well be in deep trouble, and she wouldn't have much time to lay around in bed and recover. That meant she would need to recover as quickly as possible, and prepare as well as she could; there would be no time to waste

[someonecalladr]

Chopper knew he had a 'strange' way of reacting to comments, but no one had ever reacted like Minsc, and he wasn't even the one that had complimented him! Chopper immediately went from an enthusiastic dance to shaking on his tiny hooves. Just what was he supposed to do now? He could never explain himself to the big man - even the tiny deer didn't know why he did what he did. It didn't seem like he'd find anything he said satisfactory anyways. Was he going to be stuck in a fight? No, they couldn't! Not with the injured woman, and monsters to worry about, and so many other more important things... this wasn't how the night was supposed to go

[swordsnotwords]

Evidently, Anna had Minsc's personality down one hundred percent. Looking a little surprised as the woman put her bandaged hand over his own, he listened to her words with a frown of concentration. He found her words soothing, reassuring... she was not offended? No, it seemed not! She even seemed to have a good explanation for why he acted in such a funny way, even though it went over his head a little bit. That's okay, though; Boo seemed to have understood, at least

[magicmelodic]

Anna smiled as well, for her part in relief. The poor dear--er, deer--was crying and shaking, which was probably the obvious thing such a tiny creature would do when faced with a big, brawny menace with anger issues. Still, it had been anger spurred by honor, and when the wounded honor was on another's behalf, it was thankfully easier to smooth over ruffled feathers. "Thank you; I hope I don't distress Boo too much."

She let go of his hand, forcing herself to remain steady and wracked her brain to try and come up with appropriate medieval etiquette; she'd have to introduce herself the way she had in Erde, there was just no other way with this one. Should she shake hands? Bow? ....No, somehow, both of those felt too masculine. (Dammit.) She didn't have a skirt, but.... Anna curtsied, as best she could. "I am the Lady Anna, a sorceress from the mist worlds. It is a pleasure to meet you both."