[Video] Backdated to the day after the Gilgamesh battle

[azaleafae]

[Azalea knew this would happen. Given how powerful Gilgamesh was, there was no way that it wouldn't happen. The plague really acts up when she becomes too exhausted and injured. And the recent fight had forced her to push with everything she had.]

[She could almost hear Qubine and Coco's voices, telling her how foolish she was for fighting this battle. And perhaps she would agree with them. But even now, while she's paying for her vigorous activity, she's still glad that she did her part. She wouldn't be able to forgive herself if she didn't.]

[But now she had to deal with her symptoms. She lay in Old Hell, shuffling and shivering restlessly as her muscles throbbed and ached. Her breathing becomes heavy and labored. At times like this, all she wants to do is sleep, but her pain prevents her from doing so. If she could just get some kind of medicine and/or healing magic, it might ease her pain enough so she could sleep. She managed to pull out her device with her trembling talons and start the feed.]

I...I need...h-help...K-Koishiiii...

[Given where she was, she knew Koishi would probably be the nearest person. But if not, surely someone would help.]

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[satori_komeiji]

Koishi might've been nearby, but as the door quietly opened, it was her elder sister that had arrived, first. Satori had easily heard her cries of discomfort and suffering, both mental and verbal, and seemed to have brought some medicines and remedies she thought might ease Azalea's suffering. Satori's knowledge of tending to the ill extended to her sister and her pets, after all. "Lie still for a moment. Or as still as you can hold yourself."

Carefully, she half-sat the dragon up and took up a worn glass vial to let Azalea drink from it - a bitter concoction made from the underground's plants with slight pain-killing properties. It was an old recipe that she'd learned many years ago. caring for the ills of her many pets, but she wasn't quite sure it would work the same way. It just might make the dragon's pain a little more tolerable, she hoped. Or at least less excruciating, for a short spell.

[azaleafae]

Azalea stilled herself as best as she could, still trembling slightly as Satori sat her up. Carefully she drank from the vial, her face pinching from the bitterness. Orphne's medicines weren't quite this bitter, but the taste wasn't the point here. Azalea swallowed the medicine with a hard gulp, gasping for breath.

"Th...thank you..." she whispered.

[satori_komeiji]

"You're welcome." Satori curtly replied, though seeing that her medicine might've had some effect allowed her a little relief. But still... "...it's not quite enough, is it?" she asked, musing what else she could do. She gently let Azalea back down, giving her a moment. "As someone knowledgable about the minds of others...pain blocks out virtually every thought. While a strong mind can ignore their agony and push forward, regrettably, you don't share such strength."

She sighed a little as her third eye watched her for a moment or two, her gaze moving around the room. "I may be able to take on some of your pain, instead, if that will give you any solace." By then, Koishi might show her face, and Satori acknowledged that, perhaps, her sister might be able to make a little more progress.

[azaleafae]

"I've...exhausted my strength in the battle..."

Azalea thought back to the battle for a moment. The pain had been setting in long before it was over, and yet she kept pushing on. She had to, or else she would've been killed.

She shot a look of concern at Satori's offer, though. "You don't...have to... I don't want you to...suffer this pain..."

[satori_komeiji]

While not exactly in agreement, Satori was more than a little hurt that the little dragon would rather suffer than allow it to be alleviated. Her anguished mind bothered her in a particular way that almost demanded her attention.

"You've suffered enough pain to make most beg for death. You hardly deserve such a thing, and most would stop caring long before this point." Therefore, Satori would ignore her protests and continue, regardless, for her own good. Gently and carefully as she could, she reached her mind out to Azalea's. She knew well that most sentients didn't appreciate being mentally linked, even temporarily, and even to pass on one's sensations of pain.

"Thankfully, I'm not part of such ignorance. I am well-versed in pain, myself...."It took the mind-reader all she had to hold back her reactions to such suffering. She was straining quite a bit from this mental weight. But she would endure, youkai were made of stronger stuff than most. "So, you...m-mustn't worry about me. It...it does you no good. Think of yourself, now." It was Azalea she was most worried about, poor and innocent thing that she was. "A-after all...that's really all that can be done, at this point."

[azaleafae]

Azalea could feel her pain being alleviated, now watching as Satori seemed to take on the pain despite her protests. It didn't matter how well someone could take the pain; she didn't want others to suffer needlessly. Azalea sat up in a panic.

"How can I think of myself now? What am I supposed to do while you're suffering, with my pain, no less!? What will you do now?"

[koishi_komeiji]

"It's temporary little dragon. Don't worry about Sis." Koishi! She was finally here, dressed in full uniform, hair looking more than a little windblown. She must have flown back at top speed. Her third eye was slightly open, the normally vague youkai very focused.

She knelt down next to Azalea rubbing just behind her ears and frills, her lips pursed. "If you have a bit more strength we should go out and look for someone who can give you some better medicine. I think I have someone in mind. He knows lots about spirits and strange creatures and things. I bet he could help out."

[azaleafae]

"Koishi!" Azalea was relieved to see her, but still concerned for Satori.

"I'm not sure I should go anywhere like this...at least until I recover a bit. Perhaps you can bring some medicine from him?"