⇨ THE EPILOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 61
Where: The Carnival
What: After all the rescues team return, it will be matter of tending to the wounded and getting the hell out of dodge. The Ringmaster can handle the fleeing part, but someone will need to look after those in the medical tent. Or, maybe, you just want to show up and ask what the hell happened.
Warnings: Some messed up consequences of faerie fuckery.

IN REPAIR↴ As the minutes tick past, all four rescue groups will eventually return. Everyone in the carnival is encouraged to help out, ensuring that the rescues and victims both are taken care of after the fact. You can tag in here as rescuers taking care of business around the carnival, victims recovering, or other workers checking in to see what's going on. This log is for general aftermath threads, made by anyone.

Comments

[pipers_son]

Funny, how the sound of crying can wake people up so immediately. Or, rather, it's Feathers who jolts up first, talons knocking into Joker's back, and the redhead wakes up from that almost immediately after. Panic, fear, all washed up in a current of anxiety, bolt through him before he realizes what's going on, and he blearily reaches over to touch Steven's shoulder.

"Steven-" Wait, sorry, his bird is smothering him too. Goddammit Feathers.

[starseedling]

Steven looks up to meet Joker, his eyes still wet with tears. Yet, something catches his eye before he can address any of the more pressing aspects of the situation.

"He... you... Feathers got big!" he stutters out.

[pipers_son]

"Oh, didn't he," Joker grunts from somewhere underneath some rather dead orange leaves, trying to bat away the pair of vines that dangle from Feathers' chest. It takes some grunting, and a little bit of shoulder heaving, but the now-extremely-large owl flaps off of him to land a little closer to Steven.... Thankfully off the bed and just at the bedside.

All that wing flapping kind of knocks something over, but whatever it was doesn't break, so it's... fine. It's fine.

Straightening up, Joker sweeps a hand through his hair and catches his breath. "First met him, and he was only the size of a regular owl, then he got bigger, and, well. Let's hope he doesn't get any more of it, yeah?" Joker isn't sure how he'll survive that. "How do ya feel?"

[starseedling]

Steven tries to rub away tears, then feels the texture of his hand against his face, and jerks it away. Doing that just reminds him of how he's missing bits of fingers, so he rubs his face on his upper arm instead.

"O-Okay," he tries, smiling a little. "Glad to be here." He laughs awkwardly then, hiccuping with tears. "Thank you for saving me. Again."

Again, Joker was one of the people reaching back to him from the other side. And Feathers, too. He reaches out a hand to the bird, but doesn't touch - he's still worried the crystal will burn, like it did before.

[pipers_son]

Ah. Immediately, Joker starts looking on his person- patting his pockets first with his left hand and eventually remembering he has a right, too. Sometimes it still slips his mind, especially when he's just woken up. But he has a handkerchief tucked away, thankfully. Going to rescue Steven had seemed like something to dress his best for, considering how tales worked, so...

With it in hand, he leans over around Feathers to start delicately wiping at the young boy's face. "Hey, s'what I'm here for, innit?" he says. "I'd be a rubbish stage manager and a friend if I didn't come lookin'." He pauses for a brief moment, expecting Feathers to bump his head immediately into Steven's hand without hesitation and not surprised when it of course happens.

[starseedling]

Steven lets Joker do that, because at the moment it's actually pretty damn helpful and necessary. He doesn't know what to say about the whole thing, ultimately, and so his attention focuses on Feathers for the moment. He touches the Pokemon's face, giggling again softly.

"Feathers," he says, still sniffly but genuinely interested and amused. "You look like Robin Hood."

[pipers_son]

Really, Pokemon are good for distractions. They tend to be adorable and, even when they aren't, the personality can more than make up for it into making them adorable anyway. Feathers, fortunately, has plenty of both, and tilts his head to the side in the strange way owls do.

But now that it's been pointed out... Joker lets out a startled little laugh, amused as well. "Now that ya mention it, he does! In fact..." He glances around, looking for something. "I think there's somethin' you'll love ta see a whole lot, if ya wouldn't mind gettin' outta bed. If yer too tired, I'm sure there's a wheelchair about here somewhere."

[starseedling]

Steven tries to sit up, but it's slow going. He feels off balanced, and getting onto his feet seems like a recipe for passing out. He gives Joker a helpless smile, unsure of whether or not he should be pushing it.

"What is it?" he asks.

[pipers_son]

That's not too surprising, considering Steven has not only just woken up but also had to deal with his limbs being fused into the ground. Setting the handkerchief to the side, he reaches over to ruffle the boy's hair- with his non wooden hand. No tangles. Gotta be careful about that.

"A new trick that I can't show ya indoors," he says simply before winking. "I think the doctors would get rather upset if I broke somethin' important, right? We can have it be a surprise for when yer well, ta celebrate."

[starseedling]

"Haha... Okay... I can try, I think," Steven says tentatively, shifting over onto his butt.

A pile of pink animal stirs nearby. Lion is getting the sense that he's needed for something, and yawns languidly before starting to get up. This wake the Pokemon who was sleeping with him, who ends up being far more alarmed.

"L-Lura!" Bud squeals, jumping off of Lion's back and right onto Steven, who yelps in surprise since she is bigger and a totally different shape than he last remembered.

[pipers_son]

Whups! Right, he's not the only one who's been waiting for Steven to wake up. Elbowing Feathers out of the way enough for him to squeeze through, he reaches over to make sure that Steven doesn't go toppling over... either from his exhaustion or excited Pokemon.

"Ha! Everyone got so excited ta save ya, there was all sort of growin' spurts!"