I'm in such a writing phase right now. i don't even know whats happening.
"Chloe" I nudged her form with my elbow. Fortunately she was close enough I didn't have to move my leg to wake her up. Unfortunately Tar-Mairon's presence is giving me the impression I'll be getting up whether I want to or not. He brought in a monster and a beautiful one, but this one is wearing a collar like us. Lots of burns and scrapes seem faded permanently in his skin too, but he's still beautiful. He was carrying stuff in with him, but I can't see what exactly it is. I can see some bits of metal gleaming in the candlelight on the desk.
"Go away" Chloe murmured sleepily burrowing under the covers. Tar-Mairon beckoned to the beautiful and one approached me on my side of the bed. I jabbed Chloe super hard and felt a trickle of relief when she yelped.
"I'm up already. Ohmygosh and you are too Leila!" She shouted grabbing my arm. I winced at her painful grip and shrugged noncommittally at her surprised expression.
"Unfortunately" I whimpered as Tar-Mairon ripped the blanket off the bed. Chloe looked up at him from where she was still laying and looked even more surprised. Her expression was almost comical in a sad way. Tar-Mairon ran his hand down my bandages and snapped something at the beautiful one. I jerked back when he pulled a knife out of his robes. He swiftly cut the bandages open and ran a single finger lightly over my leg. It's only been like 8 hours since he broke it. I don't know what he expects.
It looks even worse than it did when he broke it I think. I mean it's all kind of hazy and blurred together in my mind, but I do remember being surprised at the precision and strength in his hand. Now you can see almost the entire calf is bruised and blue with the breaks looking hideous. You can see where the bones were broken. He was speaking to the beautiful one who was quickly writing down things on a paper. Is he documenting my broken leg? I screamed when he applied more pressure to it. I stared at him in terror when he rested his entire hand across my calf. He seemed to be studying it and I couldn't help but start yanking at his hand and screaming when he started applying pressure. He stopped, grabbed the papers, and wrote something down himself before handing it back.
Chloe's hand covered mine shaking on the bed and I tried not to cry as Tar-Mairon went back to the table pulling out more bandages from whatever they brought. He wrapped it himself this time pulling it tighter than the healer did yesterday. I sniffled and looked at him with fright as he moved to Chloe's side. She gave me a look full of wide-eyed terror when he grabbed her and pulled her over to the side. He unwrapped one of her bandages on the feet. Most of it was covered in blood. I winced and gagged slightly at the sight of the marks on the bottom of her feet. The beautiful one came over as well and started writing Tar-Mairon's observations.. He had her feet rewrapped and she looked miserable in pain.
He moved to the desk and picked up something rope like. The beautiful one rushed over to the desk at his words, but apparently not fast enough because the monster still standing over there gave a loud snarl and hit him. I gasped at the little cry that escaped him as he hurriedly grabbed a blank paper. Tar-Mairon gave a sideways glance at the door as Red-eye came in. I felt Chloe tremble in fear and tighten her grip on my hand. The monsters and Red-eye both approached me and I tried to move back, but only fell back as my leg jostled. The monster roughly pulled my hand out of Chloe's and jerked me up on one side away from her. Red-eye pulled me all the way off the bed like nothing and lowered me to the floor. I tried to take all of the weight on my non-broken leg and immediately lost my balance. I instinctively clutched at Red-Eye trying not to fall and he let me hang onto his arm. The monster took the rope thing from Tar-Mairon and I leaned in Red-eye cowering as he came close. He simply shook it out and stood it next to my head. Oh, they wanted my height. Red-eye made me straighten out, but let me hold into his arm as I swayed dangerously from lack of balance. He said something to Tar-Mairon who took the paper from the beautiful one. Red-eye then lifted and spun me around in the air faster then I could blink setting me back down on the bed again. He pulled on of my arms out and measured that too. Repeating the process with my non-broken leg, my waist, my hands, fingers, neck, and basically everything you could measure. It felt like forever.
Chloe looked horrified when he came to stand in front of her. His walking speed is like my sprinting speed. Maybe even faster than that. She trembled uncontrollably and I again had to wonder how exactly had she gotten her feet inured and suspected Red-eye was responsible by her reactions. He lifted her up and tried to set her down the same way, but she started thrashing the moment her feet touched the floor and pulled them up. Red-eye just dropped her and she screamed when her feet hit the floor. I winced in sympathy. It was likely harder than just standing would have been. She was already crying when Red-eye dragged her up by her arm. Tar-Mairon wasn't trying to stop Red-eye at all and I think he even wrote down her reaction. Or at least he was writing something. I could hear Chloe's suppressed sobs when he made her straighten all the way out and take her height. When he set her back in the bed and off her feet she fell back against me breathing hard. I waited lost in my thoughts as he began to take measurements of Chloe.
I jerked in surprised as Tar-Mairon tipped my face up. When had he gotten here? He was over there writing stuff down. He gripped my jaw until I opened my mouth at how hard the grip was. I jerked back at the probing finger in my mouth and coughed, but his other hand was on the back of my head. He was poking at my teeth. He then tilted my face back and inspected my mouth. When he let go I gave Chloe a look of serious dissatisfaction and she just looked completely baffled. She let him do the same to her, but with much more ease since she had figured out from me what he wanted.
Tar-Mairon stepped back and looked us over conversing with Red-eye quietly over the paper. Red-eye approached me and took some of my hair gently in his hand. He rubbed his thumb over it and held it up to glitter in the light. They were really fascinated by our ombre hair. He moved over to Chloe's hair and did the same thing letting it fall gently piece by piece out his hand. He then looked into both of our eyes, but not with a gaze per say. Just into one eye and he tilted my head back and around to see it in different light then repeating with Chloe. He gently gripped my hand and slowly let his grip harden until I tried to pull away. He did it with Chloe as well while Tar-Mairon stood behind watching and taking notes. They did a few more exercises like that with us and finally went back to the desk and put the papers and instruments back.
"Tar-Mairon" I turned to Chloe in shock at the sound of her voice. I couldn't believe she was calling their attention back to us. Both looked at Chloe and Tar-Mairon just raised an eyebrow at her in his silent way of saying go ahead. I couldn't help, but stare at Chloe in utter disbelief as she widened her eyes sadly in that puppy dog way before patting her stomach beseechingly. Of course she wanted food. She would risk her life for food. Actually now that she brought it up, I'm quite hungry too. We need to be given food more than once a day. Tar-Mairon and Red-eye looked at each other and then left with the monster following and the beautiful one grabbing everything and rushing to keep up.
"The hell" Chloe muttered "They better send food" I just rolled my eyes.