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[Breekan1]

"Sack of hell, man!" B1 drops the device as Ossy crashes back into reality. "Hold up, I've got a first-aid kit we can use." He reaches into the small of his back and produces a round black sphere, gridded with collapsible compartments. He hands it to Alic and Myitt. "I don't know much about how medicine works. Or Andalites. But if you need, I can help you identify most of this stuff. It's weird, but potent."

[applix]

Mike could hear someone approaching and it wasn't until he heard Alic's voice that he actually quivered. His head turned towards where she was standing, his hands clenching into fists on the table in front of him. Of course his eyes couldn't focus on her so he seemed to be staring into space. Sweat poured down his forehead and made his fingers moist and cold.

"W...wh.what's going on?" He asked, trying to look in the direction of Ossanlin and Myitt.

Mike grasped the back of his chair as he turned, "Tell me what's going on," He asked Alic, but he could tell she'd ignore him if only to spite him.

[Myitt]

"'ey, what's up with him, then?" Corliss asks, nodding at the recently demophed Mike.  "Mike, you're alive, that's good...thought you'd scampered off...but what happened to your eyes, mate?"

Myitt, still quite a bit disoriented, takes the little sphere and looks at Breekan skeptically.  "This came from inside your body?  Man, you'd think I'd have gotten used to that by now."  She clicks at the compartments, holding up a couple of small capsules.  "What are these?  Will they help him?"

[Breekan1]

"Well, inside the suit," Breekan explains. "The pockets are fourth-dimensional shortcuts to a larger storage space. I'm basically covered with wormholes." He stoops down next to Myitt and analyzes the capsules. "As far as these go, this one should make sure his blood keeps pumping, but it might make him twitch uncontrollably. And this one with the little purple dot on the bottom will eliminate 'psychocancers' like compassion or curiosity..." He frowns. "You know, I could have sworn I'd thrown that one out..."

[Myitt]

"Right," says Myitt, handing him the psychocancer pill.  "This blood pumping pill, are there any other notable side effects?  Like...death?"  She frowns down at Ossanlin's prostate form.  "On the plus side, we don't need to force this down any throats.  Bartender, you bastard, can you get me some water?"

The bartender wordlessly hands Myitt a cup of water.  She sets it down with her left hand and single-handedly breaks open the pill, pouring its contents into the glass.  She hesitates.  "This had better not kill him, there's been enough of that tonight."  She sets one of Ossanlin's hooves into the glass, sideways, most of the contents dribbling into the wooden floor.  Enough of it stays in the glass so that his hoof is submerged.  "I don't even know if his hooves are...you know.  Open for business.  Maybe he has to be awake for that."  She half shrugs.

[Alic]

Alic was sitting crosslegged next to Ossanlin's head, and scoot herself to where she was able to move his head to rest on her leg.

"Mike. None of this concerns you." At this point she wasn't really fond of him, and wanted someone to blame for all that has happened, Mike being the easy target.

"Er, Myitt?" Alic watched as she put Ossy's hoof in the water. "It may work.. But if he DOES start twitching.. Being in reach of an Andalite tail blade is not a good idea."

[Breekan1]

Breekan shakes his head. "Crayak's standard issue medical supplies fall into three categories- tissue repair, mind control and euthanasia. If it's got red and blue stripes, don't let him eat it."

[applix]

Mike heard Alic speak to him harshly and quickly turned away from the group, staring at a wall next to the door without even knowing it. His left hand moved to his forehead and wiped a cold sweat from his brow. He had heard Corliss and just shook his head, "I don't know.... shadow..." He muttered the last word, "I'm blind." He said softly, obviously trying to get attention but as he knew better he tried to make sure only Corliss had heard.

[Luke Skywalker (Ossanlin)]

*Ossanlin's eyes flutter a bit but he is still quite obviously unconscious.*  <....No Prince Malkin, I didn't...>  *Ossanlin's head twitches, his thoughts quiet as a whisper, though easily heard by everyone.*  <..No!...>  *Ossanlin's head twitches again and a thin line draws down his cheekbone, it bleeds a bit as though a paper-cut might.*

*As his head is cradled in Alic's human-morphed lap, it begins to twitch again, but in a different manner.  Some of the liquid had been absorbed by his hoof, sort of a swallow reflex, and the capsule's meds were doing as described.  His blood-pressure increases, his breathing becoming just a hair stronger.  The twitches are not very violent, he still lacks enough energy for that.*

*Inside Ossanlin's head, not somewhere others could see, his memories played out in random succession, one after the other.  Somehow they were a sort of half-reality, his body experiencing the states of its existence in those memories yet not moving...the cut on Ossanlin's cheek had come when Prince Malkin had slapped him smartly on the face with the flat of his tail-blade, it's edge still leaving a shallow cut, because he thought that he'd lied about being with another aristh.  The femme had been a friend of his, but he was not the one who had gotten her with folla.  Regardless it had been upon him that the tailblade fell, though he was later proven innocent through confession of another aristh.*

<...TO, I want that shield flex-matrix back online...AHHH!...>  *Ossanlin's entire body flexed weakly and new bruises began to appear on his head atop and beside the one that had recently formed thanks to the bar-stool, as well as all down the left side of his upper torso and left arm.*  <..I'm fine...I'm fine Lalin, get back to your station and get those shields up.....>

*The muttered thoughts sound as though they are from a madman or from someone experiencing powerful hallucinations and dellusions.  Ossanlin's eyes flutter again as significant moments in his past play through his mind's eye...his entire body flickers a bit as if his own timeweave is no longer completely embraced by the timestream...his mind somewhere in between.*

[Alic]

Alic was wishing she could help Ossy more, but didn't know what to do to wake him up. She gently places his head onto the ground and stands up and demorphs. With everything that had been going on, she didn't want to feel helpless as a human.

<Ossanlin. Its me, Aliciania. Wake up!> His body flickered and she didn't know what that meant, just that he needed to get up. <C'mon, bud, please.>

[Myitt]

Myitt inches away, watching worriedly.  "Be careful, Alic, he's not in the best state of mind right now."  As Ozzy visibly flickers she bites her lip.  "Not the best state of existence, either.  Jeez, Mar, where the heck are you?"  She looks around helplessly.  Maybe he could help.

Corliss goes over to Mike a few paces.  "What?  You're blind, why?  What did this to you?"

[Shenmue654]

Mar slowly edges back and is suddenly and abruptly thrown back into reality, stumbling over and falling onto the ground quite near Ossanlin. Mar's head feels as if it has been split open with a jackhammer, and the memories of his strange life are seeping through his mind. But due to his somewhat pliable nature he did not get hurt as badly as Ossanlin did. Still...here...mortal...I'm still dead...gone...dammi t. Why didn't my brother come with me...he knows He was a liar...He told me we were the best and ONLY ones...not servants..

The years of bitterness and hatred echo for a while, and settle down to a dull, painful throbbing. But this is normal. Creating an avatar is not nearly so painful as coming into a true mortal form. Mar stumbles to his feet and stares at Ossanlin. That fool...wasting his breath bringing back both of us at once...why would he do that? He must know now that I owe him something by the usual standards. That must be it.

Mar glances around blearily. The world is a vague mess again. His head's still filled with bits of Ossanlin's time and his own. "How is...is Myitt...are you back, precious? Did we manage it?"

[Myitt]

Myitt stares as Mar rematerializes and crashes to the ground near Ossanlin.  Corliss turns and looks, too.  "Alright, are there going to be any more sudden appearances, eh?"

Myitt jabs a finger at Mar.  "Hey.  Do not," she growls, standing up from her position near Ossanlin, "call me that."

[Shenmue654]

Mar blinks, looking up at Myitt. She momentarily seems to be smiling at him in another time, her short brown hair waving in the wind and her green eyes making her stand out. But Mar knows even in his tired state that this is an illusion, a thing that is now but was, to a him that isn't here. This disappoints him as he doesn't understand this the way he should right now, and he wants her to be here now.

Mar shakes his head. "If you don't want me to call you that, than I won't. But you are. It doesn't matter. Are you well? Ossanlin brought us both back on his own, which explains his state. I'll have to repay his favor."

[Myitt]

"As well as I can be, considering," says Myitt tersely.  "Can you help him?  His mental and physical stability have been damaged...all because he was trying to save me.  You've got to try.  Please, Mar."