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Post by Mininirime on May 19, 2006 4:29:50 GMT -5
As you walk into the Healing House of Edoras a scent of herbs comes to meet you. All around you there are shelves and cabinets with herbs and medicines in them. On each side of the room is door leading to another room. One brings you the treatment room. Light flowes in through the big windows and in every corner there are candles to light up the room at night. Two beds stand in the middle of the room and on tables in the corner you see medical equipment. The other door brings you to the resting room. This room also lighted by big windows and clandles, but is a lot larger. Rows of soft beds stand next to each other along the walls. The owner, Lossefalme approaches you. She is known to be the best healer/curator in all of Rohan. As she smiles friendly she says:
‘Welcome! Is there anything I can do to help you? I'll be glad to comfort and heal your pains if it is that that troubles you. Or is it your horse or dog that's injured? That won't be a problem either. I'll do what is in my powers to help you and yours.’
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Post by Mininirime on May 30, 2006 15:53:50 GMT -5
The first thing that Mininirime always did when she was back in Edoras again, was visiting her friend, Lossefalme, and nine out of ten times she was to be found in the Healing House. This time, however, she needed to be there for another reason too.
"Greetings Loss, It is great to see you again, I never realise how long I've been gone, untill I come back here and the seasons have past. How is everybody here?"
As she listened to Lossefalme, she reached for the soft blanket bound around her shoulder and her back and slowly started unwrapping what was inside.
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Post by Lossefalme on May 30, 2006 17:00:08 GMT -5
When Mininirime came in, Lossefalme was just sorting and bundling the herbs that she had gathered from the plains around Edoras earlier that day. As she turned around, she realized who it was and a warm smile came to her face. Not too long ago Mininirime and Lossefalme had gone on many quests together as Rohirrim, fighting side by side, facing every possible danger.
"Mae govannen Mininirime. Nae saian luume'.*" She smiled and embraced Mininirime. "How are you? And what have you done since we last met? Here in Edoras things have been rather quiet. Ever since the battle for Edoras people have only been slowly returning to their houses. Even now, two years later, the population is only half of what it was before the battle. Her eyes wandered off and stared out of the window, remembering how hard it had been to rebuild and restore Edoras after the Battle and strange events that followed. After a minute of silence she returned to the present situation. "But I myself am doing fine right now, and even more now that you have returned! Please sit down. Would you like some of my herbal tea? It's quite soothing. And please do tell me your story."
Lossefalme got herself a chair from the other side of the room and placed it next to the fireplace, ready to listen to Mininirime's story.
*Translation: Well met Mininirime. It has been too long.
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Post by Mininirime on May 31, 2006 8:38:49 GMT -5
Mininirime sat down on the chair with the half unwrapped bundle on her lap, and began her storie, she had first visited Lothlorien, the home of her father, but she hadn't stayed there long.
"After a few monthes, which always seem like weeks there, I went further, I wanted to go somewhere new, so I went south, past Gondor and Mordor, to the warm lands in the south. It was really impressing, but elves aren't the most welcome creatures there, so I had to travel a lot in the dark. The I went back again, but this time to Mirkwood."
She continued about the good times she had there, she had stayed long, celebrated, trained, read and rested after all she had seen. But a homesickness came over her for Rohan and so she went back taking a small detour.
"I wanted to travel over the mountians. Though it's hard traviling, I love the peace up there. And that brings me to matter that I wanted your advice about."
She unwrapped the bundle untill a small white tiger was sleeping uncovered on her lap, at the moment not bigger than a large cat.
"I found this one without a mother in sight and I searched for the mother, but couldn't find it anywhere in the erea. I think it must have strayed from its nest and lost its way. I couldn't let her starve, so I decided to keep it. But I don't know how long it had been alone and how exactly to take care of it. So I hoped that maybeyou'd be able to give me some advice about that, and maybe check her, whether she is ok or not."
Mininirime stroked the small tiger and it opened its eyes.
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Post by Lossefalme on May 31, 2006 16:33:37 GMT -5
Lossefalme looked quite surprised as she laid eyes upon the animal. she had never seen anything like it before.
"Well, I have certainly never seen an animal quite like it, apart from the ordinary house cat. What exactly is it? If this is just a cub, then what kind of beast will it become once it's grown? Nevertheless, i cannot deny that it looks extremely beautiful. Can I touch it?" She wasn't quite sure weither it would be safe to handle the animal, so studied it cautiously.
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Post by Mininirime on May 31, 2006 18:14:30 GMT -5
"I have seen them on my travels before, they live high in the mountains. When its fully grown it will probably be as large as a smaal foal, maybe a little smaller. The ones I saw were that sizes at least. She looked at the small animal with soft eyes, while Loss checked it. "When their grown they can be quite wild, but that could just be the way their raised. I think they eat meat, they are like wolves, only bigger."
Mininirime remembered the first time she had seen a full grown tiger, it had come after her and Mordred, and they had only escaped just in time.
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Post by Lossefalme on Jun 1, 2006 5:42:39 GMT -5
Lossefalme still wasn't quite sure of how to handle the cub. It looked quite harmless, but it's potential was quite frightening.
"Don't you think it'll be to dangerous when it grows up. How will you prevent it from attacking humand and horses?" As she said that, she finally dared stroke the cub over its head, feelig the softness of it's fur.
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 1, 2006 8:56:10 GMT -5
"Well, I figured you can train it, just like all animals. This one is so young that the mother probably hasn't taught it that it has to fight and attack for food. So as long as I feed it well, and show it that harming others is wrong, it will be fine. Besides, I'm an elf, you know." She said with a sly smile, "not that that means anything. Anyway, if it becomes dangerous, I'll be the first to take it back into the wild."
Mininirime looked at the liitle cub, that was now licking Lossefalmes hans, with love in her eyes. She knew that this animal was not evil at heart, she could sense it.
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Post by Lossefalme on Jun 4, 2006 15:34:19 GMT -5
Lossefalmes heart melted away as the cub licked her hands. "Aren't you a beautyful little one?", she said as she stroked it's head with her other hand. "Let me have a look at your teeth little one."
Lossefalme pulled the cub's upper lip up and to the side, examining it's teeth. Then she took a paw and had a closer look. Carefully she put it down again and examined the cub's ribs and belly.
"Hmm, well anatomically she looks just like a bigger version of a cat, just as I expected. From the look of her teeth she's a carnivore, but judging by her size she'll be needing quite a bit of meat, raw that is. But now that she is young you can mainly feed her with milk. I suspect that she'll be quite a large beast once she is grown..."
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 6, 2006 9:39:38 GMT -5
"Hmm yeah, she will. But that is of later worry, I will take care of her training, and maybe later she can be of help around here."
Now that she knew the cub was healthy she felt at ease once more. she sat back in the chair and sipped her tea. "I'm glad peace has once more returned to these parts. But I do have to confes that all the action, though dangerous and sometimes really frightening, was exhillerating. I guess I'm not made for the quite life." She said with a sigh.
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Post by Lossefalme on Jun 18, 2006 15:23:26 GMT -5
Lossefalme gave Mininirime a big smile and had a twinkle in her eye. "I say, shall we go down to the Pub of Rohan for a meal and then do some sword practise at the training grounds of the Riddermark? In memory of the good old times. What do you say?"
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Post by Mininirime on Jun 20, 2006 16:49:57 GMT -5
"I'm game!" Mininirime Smiled, she had missed her friends on her long journeys, and it was good to talk to her again. "Lets go now. She got up and together they walked down the street to the Pub.
OOC: I'll contineu the story there.
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