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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Scott was glad to hear that Damon was handling the morning's events well, primarily for Ami's sake. She had her psychic hands full with Mara and River already.

"Uh...what was I saying?" George said. "Oh--right. We might as well talk to Blaise. I came over here to talk to Faith about the trip out to the other crash site, but she took off."

Scott gave George a grim smile. "After the look on her face, that's a good thing. She'll be back once she's calmed down." He looked in the direction that Tommy had headed. Scott could just make out the man in the ocean floating on his back in some seaweed. (Weird.) Somehow he knew that the Native American wasn't injured or worse. That knowledge was even weirder.

Writing it off to island weirdness, Scott returned his attention to George and Carlos. "Blaise it is." Then he turned to Mara and Ami. "You should probably stay here and rest. Okay?"

(OOC: If he's cracking an abalone shell on his belly, Scott, THEN you can worry. ^.^)

Mara nodded. "I'll...keep working on recovering. Please, don't worry about me. I'm just happy that there are people around me who actually give a damn this time. It makes things so much easier I can't even describe it."

Carlos buried his nose in George's hair briefly to help him center himself. Then he kissed the top of her head. "Yeah. Let's report our findings and then see about what else the raft crew needs." His tone was tired and grim. /Jesus, what a mess this has turned into. I wonder if Lucy would have done what she did if she realized it would cause this much pain even to total strangers/.

Ami gave Scott a tight hug and kissed him lightly and chastely on the lips. /I'll be glad to sit this one out./ Aloud she said, "I'll stay with Mara. I think I can use the downtime as well."

Another downside to telepathy was getting too wrapped up in other people. But she couldn't help herself when other people needed help even more than she did.

"Good," Scott agreed. He told Ami and Mara, "Back soon." Then he, George, and Carlos set off in Blaise's direction.

OOC: They went this way (http://community.livejournal.com/crossing_lostrp/69109.html).

(OOC: If he's cracking an abalone shell on his belly, Scott, THEN you can worry. ^.^)

LOL!

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

[Scott] Good Idea (tag Ami, Carlos, et al)

[Carlos, Mara] Good Idea (tag George, Ami, Scott, et al)

[Ami] Taking a Time Out (tag Scott, et al)

[Scott] Taking a Time Out (no tag)

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