Good Morning My Child (Rhona)

[Xapham]

Rhona would wake up suddenly. She would be in a strange room, nice, almost elegant, it definitely wasn't a hospital room. In fact it looked like a normal bedroom, well if you were rich. If she tried to move she would feel a sharp pain coming from her abdomen. If she looked down she would be where very light clothes, and under her shirt was lots of wrapping around her torso, someone had treated her wound. However, what she might note as most surprising is there was no signs of any other battle damage aside from her stab wound... 

[Rhona Hall]

Rhona did feel strange and cupping her wound she realized her fingers were chill and and what ever breeze came in the room while mild sent. Shiver through her body. This was not right. Her internal temperature was usually so high she rarely felt the cold and the hot hardly phased her. She had been so warm within herself that it was said she'd never have kids and she had never been sick. Nothing other than what was natural to her would survive well in her body. But this was a strange feeling...

She pulled gently at her wraps and wanted to get a look at her wound.

[Xapham]

It was then that a knock would come at the door and in would walk Xapham.

"Ah, I wouldn't recommend that. You'll risk infection if you pull of the bandages preemptively."

He would say as he walked over and sat down a tray with a glass of water a bowl of something that smelled delicious.

[Rhona Hall]

"How bad is it?" She eyed the man up and down wondering who he might be. She vaguely remembered his face with his wings but she had recognized him a one of the ones frequenting the camps and caring for kids so she didn't think he was harmful.

"Assuming not so bad I can eat and not have it spill from holes in my entrails, then?" She picked up the water first to take a deep swig. She had a dryness in her throat which she assumed might be from a long sleep.

[Xapham]

He smiled a sad smile.

"Bad enough that it resisted my healing powers, rather, it seemed to get worse the more I tried to heal it with Qi, I had to resort to traditional medicine to save your life. That being said, you will survive, and you will find that you are able to eat and your intestines are intact, luckily."

Then he would turn around a pull a chair closer to the bed and he sat down.

"My name is Xapham by the way, and I am originally from the same world you came from. So, there need not be any secrets here."

[Rhona Hall]

“Yeah, you’re the guy who helped the meta kids stuck here. I’ve heard of you. So what was it that stabbed me and has our blood turned black in this world? Last I checked it was still red and warm like anyone else.” She picked up the bowl and brought it to her lips to suck on the broth for starters. She’d listen to what Xepham would say while she did ate. She remained calm not knowing the full extent of the situation she was in.

[Xapham]

Xapham's sad smile deepened...

"Ah... to be honest... I'm still not entirely sure what you got stabbed with... but I can assure you that your blood is still red. That... black substance that oozed out of your wound was... well, technically it was still your blood, but it was rotted and decayed, being destroyed at the molecular level. I... think you were poisoned somehow."

He leaned back in his chair and took a deep sigh.

"So, how... are you feeling?"

[Rhona Hall]

Rhona swallowed her first mouthful of food,after drinking the broth she was suddenly scooping the chunkier bits of the food seemingly very quickly. It was good what ever it was and it warmed her to the core.

Which did remind her...

“Something feels off... not sure I can describe it.” She felt her skin with the brush of her fingers to her other arm. “I feel kind of chill.”

[Xapham]

"I see... and... May I ask, what was your Qi?"

[Rhona Hall]

“I... uh... I absorbed it from the sun.” She was already making a fist to show it but as there was difficulty to bring it forward in this world there was more difficulty. She was straining to the point the veins in her muscly arms were more apparent. She gave a breathy chuckle and looked at Xepham. “I might have spent a bit too much in my fight.”

[Xapham]

Xapham reached out and, if Rhona let him he would gingerly hold her fist. And lower it.

"I have some... distressing news my child..."

He said his voice full of sorrow.

"I don't entirely know what it was that it was you were poisoned with... but what I do know... is that there is no longer any Qi within your body."

[Rhona Hall]

Her lips parted somewhat slack at his words.her hands went through her shortened hair and back into view. They were scarred and ker knuckles were bulbous from they wear and tear on them through her fighting career. Thick, calloused, and battle worn and suddenly she didn’t recognize them. She didn’t recognize where she was in her path as if she looked up from a dream and had no idea where she woke. Which wasn’t entirely off the mark but she was feeling it in a metaphorical sense now

What could she think of this? What did this make her? What would others think?

“They made me like them?”

[Xapham]

Xapham nodded.

"Yes... I'm not sure who, 'they' are at this juncture. But I assure you I will find out who."

[Rhona Hall]

“This...what am I going to do? My Qi was everything about me, it was my parents, my drive, it was who I was... I devoted my entire life to being a soldier, being a light to the front lines... You telling me all that was taken?” She heard her mother’s words and teachings as well as her fathers pride in her ears feeling so hollow like everything was in vain. It was bad enough this move took Mt. Olympus and the god lands away but now she no longer had any claim to anything that once made her who she was, who she felt she was meant to be.

[Xapham]

Xapham would sigh...

"I'm sorry. I can not say for certain that your abilities are completely gone, at least not until you are healed completely... but... the way that the mysterious poison reacted to my own Qi when attempting to heal you with my divine light... it eats Qi, and grows. It took a lot of effort to get the Poison out of your body... but it had already eat to much of your Qi. I can barely sense any within you now. .