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crossing_lostrpOOC: Bumping from [Lucy] Day 11: Making Her Escape due to maximum comment/replies reached.
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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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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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[Ami] Time Out (tag Scott, group at Mara's shelter)
Date: 2006-05-18 01:41 am (UTC)/I haven't sensed any distress from him,/ it was difficult for Ami to keep the confusion out of her voice and not ask, "Since when do you care?" A part of her wondered if the world had shifted on axis or changed rotation at some point in time and if she'd missed it. /But I'll check up on him./
Still, just to be certain, she reached out, giving her friend a mental nudge. /Hiya./
/Hey!/ Megabyte 'sounded' relieved. /You okay?/
/I was just going to ask you the same thing,/ Ami replied, glad to have something else to focus on besides the conversation between Scott, George and Carlos. Mara was as uninvolved in conversation as she was.
/I think I'm better at weathering these things than you are./ There was a thoughtful pause and she could sense him testing her shields and her emotional state. /I would have checked in on you, but you calmed down and I saw that Scott was with you./
(Ok, now I'm convinced that I woke up in the Twilight Zone.)
/What?/ Megabyte asked.
/Huh?/ Scott echoed.
/Never mind,/ Ami directed the thought at both of them, then turned her attention back to Megabyte. Since when had Scott's presence dictated that Megabyte could be calm and not worry about her?
/You're okay, then?/ Megabyte prodded.
/Yes, I'm holding up./
Ami could almost see his scowl and frown. /That doesn't sound fine./
/It's the best I can do right now./
This time she felt his exasperation. /Look, just . . . take care of yourself before worrying about everyone else, okay?/
/I'm working on it./
/Promise?/
/I promise./
Megabyte didn't believe her, Ami could tell that much, but his mental touch lightened and she focused on Scott. /He's doing better than I am./ Ami pointedly didn't mention that he'd practically echoed Scott's sentiment about her taking care of herself.