crossing_lostrp | [Ami] Day 11: Tending Open Wounds (tag Mara,open)

OOC: Bumping from [Lucy] Day 11: Making Her Escape due to maximum comment/replies reached.

Edited 16 May 06 to add: Maximum Posting Limit of 75 has been suspended for this thread.

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Ami ducked into Mara's shelter as Tommy and Jon made their way to the cookfire area. As they departed, her stomach grumbled a bit, reminding her that she hadn't eaten yet this morning. Tommy and Jon were too far away without shouting for them, and shouting might disturb Mara and she wasn't willing to leave the young woman alone. She figured she'd suffer through for a while longer; it wasn't like she would die of starvation in a few hours time.

Kneeling by Mara's bed, she hesitantly reached out and placed her hand lightly on the woman's forehead. Dropping her shields just a bit, she focused solely on Mara, wincing again at the rents and tears in the woman's shields. Beneath that, she was disturbed, and mentally and psychically exhausted. Ami wasn't connected to Mara the way she was to Megabyte, Mara not being a Tomorrow Person, but she thought she would try to reinforce the woman's shielding a bit anyway. The worse that would happen was nothing and the best was that Mara might sleep a bit easier, even if Ami couldn't take away the horrors she'd already experienced.

It took a few minutes of concentration, and Ami felt a wee bit more tired herself when it was done, but she'd managed to connect with Mara on the very surface and reinforce her shielding – filling in some of the gaps. It wouldn't hold for long, a day at the most, but hopefully it would give the other woman some comfort.

Done with what she could do, Ami leaned against Mara's bed and waited for Tommy and Jon to return.

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"You'd think," Tommy agreed. Ami's bitter statement had inspired an idea, though. The entire island seemed to be a power game. What if the person or people who had driven Lucy to suicide were part of it?

Ami seemed slightly more composed, so Tommy ventured, "Would you like for me to stay here a bit longer?" He would if Ami needed company, but also wanted to get Lucy's note.

Ami gave Tommy a grateful and friendly, if somewhat shakey smile. He was one of the good people on the island. She didn't know him well, but she was glad that he was the one who'd found Mara. Others might not have accepted her words, or understood her so well. "No, I'll be fine. Scott will be back soon, and Faith's coming to check on Mara. She worries about her like a mother hen."

There was a chip in the wall that held her clairvoyance and precognition at bay, put there by the experience with Lucy. Ami was both grateful and wary of the return of both abilities. Either Lucy's emotions had been strong enough to overpower whatever the island was doing, or she was adapting. Perhaps it was some combination or both, or the strengting link between her and Scott. Whatever it was, and whatever that presencience threw at her, it would be good to feel more like herself again, weak though both abilities still were.

[Ami] Day 11: Tending Open Wounds (tag Mara,open)

[Tommy] Bloody Brilliant (tag Ami, open)

[Ami] Bloody Brilliant (tag Tommy, open)