ωɪʟʟ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ғɪɴᴀʟʟʏ sᴛᴏᴘ? (open)

[mationix]

Ruine let out a sigh and wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, sweat clinging onto her skin.  She had been sent outside by her mother, something about getting some sunlight.  Whatever the reason was, the commoner did not want to be underneath the baking sun anymore.  Groaning, she sat herself next to a large and shady tree, sliding her back along the rough bark.  She pulled her legs closer to herself, as she watched the wind stir the grass.  Sure, it was peaceful and all that, though when was something exciting going to happen?

[CrimsonMoon]

As if on que, a horse suddenly bursts into the open field. It's black hide criss-crossed with scars and new wounds that bled profusely.. It wore a saddle but not rider...

The huge warhorse crashes to the ground, lying on its side with its flank heaving...

[mationix]

Ruine's eyebrows furrowed, as she slowly got to her feet. She slowly walked over to the horse, though paused a couple of feet away from it, her mother's warning of injured animals flickering through her mind. She raised her hands and bent down, trying to make herself seem less of a threat to the cut horse. "Hi there," she murmured, not moving an inch, her eyes never leaving or flickering away from the animal. "What happened, huh?" She continued, trying to scrutinize the horse's wounds, without startling it.

[CrimsonMoon]

The beast stares at her with wide brown eyes, its nostrils flaring and a pitiful whinny coming from it's throat. It seems to calm a bit but.... was obviously still scared..

[mationix]

Ruine hesitantly crept over to the beast and slowly reached her hand towards its flank, a frown appearing. She had no idea on how to heal humans, heck, she didn't even know how to heal people. She grimaced as she looked the horse over; it looked pretty exhausted, if it wasn't putting up much of a fight. Then again, it looked like it had an owner.

What could she do, it wasn't like she could magically heal this battered animal. Ruine patted the horse's flank, careful to avoid the wounds. "I'll be right back, OK? I just need to get some items to help you." The commoner understood that the animal probably couldn't understand her, but she had heard that animals could sense strong emotions. Hopefully this was the same instance.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse stared at her for a long moment before whickering softly... it almost looked like it had nodded to her but it was probably just a trick of the mind.. when she had ran her hand over it's flank, it was clear this was a high-grade warhorse from the thick muscles beneath it's coat, the creature had to be atleast 17 hands tall... and that was minimum.

[mationix]

Ruine got to her feet and walked towards her house, glancing back towards the horse every now and then. Once she got inside, she grabbed a couple of clean cloths, a bucket of water, a handful of lavender and leaves of aloe vera, and a mortar and pestle.

She hurried back with the items and spread them out on the ground in front of the horse. She hesitated for a moment, before grabbing the bucket of water and dipping a cloth into it. She gently pressed against the horse's wounds, trying to clean them out. Ruine hoped that this would work, oh how she hoped it was helping.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse lifts its huge head to blink at her, being a good little patient as it stayed still. It whickers softly as if begins nose the lavender..

[mationix]

Ruine cooed softly to it, finishing cleaning its wounds, half of her cloths now completely dirtied with blood. She set them down on the ground, picked the lavender up, and crushed it underneath the pestle. She took a cloth and dabbed the crushed lavender onto the horse's wounds, trying to keep the inflammation of its wounds done. Next, she took the aloe vera and gently pressed it with the pestle, trying to get its liquid out. Once she squeezed enough of the liquid out, she carefully took the leaf out of the mortar and set it on the ground. Ruine took another cloth and dipped it into the liquid, slowly rubbing the horse's wounds, the lavender and the aloe vera swirling into one another.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse rumbles softly, every now and then shoving its nose under her arm as if trying to see what the heck that weird smelling stuff was doing on him. He was a gentle horse... Which was amazing for a stallion let alone a warhorse..

[mationix]

Ruine chuckled, finally leaning back again, feeling like she had done the best she could do. Now how was she going to stop it from trying to lick away the medicine; the cloths she had weren't enough to stop it from trying to get rid of it. Might as well tie the cloths around the worst wounds.

She grabbed the rest of the cloths and tightly tied them around the worst cuts. Ruine patted the horse's flank and murmured incoherently to it, not exactly paying attention to what she was saying. After a while, she finally noticed that she was telling it random stories from her childhood, not knowing what else to say to it; just talking to the horse, trying to keep it company, not really knowing what else she could do for it.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse lays it's huge head on her lap, nuzzling her stomach almost as if it understood... Almost as if it was tellin her to keep talking

[mationix]

Ruine's voice trailed off, as her mind wandered, absentmindedly stroking the horse's mane. She blinked, coming back down to earth and she managed a small smile. "Hopefully what I did to help you will actually work," she said, a tired sigh coming out. Even if it did help, how was she supposed to find the horse's rider, if he, or she, was still alive?

Shaking her head, she patted the stallion's neck. "Guess there isn't much I can do now, is there?" Ruine continued, chuckling weakly.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse huffs and nuzzles her face, whickering

[mationix]

She studied the horse for a moment, before asking, "Hey, do you know where your rider is?" She then paused and almost slapped herself internally. She was now talking to a horse, like it could actually understand her. Ruine now really didn't want to go outside; this is what the sun did to her.

[CrimsonMoon]

The horse sneezes and blinks at her, suddenly starting to hall itself to its hooves, some of the uts opening a bit and bleedin but atleast it didnt seem ready to... Die... Again

[mationix]

Ruine blinked, a stunned look on her face. Alright, this was a little new... Though it was probably best to just go with it. She slowly got up and slowly asked, putting a hand on its flank, "Can you lead me to him or her, I might be able to help them."