Tomos help back a snarky remark about his "fixed" head when Haven asked Tomos to keep silent. "I won't tell, not if you don't want me to." He replied slowly uncertainly. Tomos was confused. Why didn't Haven want Tomos to tell? It was just a wound. Every fighter at one point in thier life gets hurt. Why would Haven be ashamed of that? Pride? Thinking that as a leader he couldn't show weakness? That was an idiotic ideology. "But you're injured." he contiued. "Lillith will be coming back any moment. You should let her look at you."

Keith wasn't aware of what happened to Haven. He was deep in his own thoughts far from the place Haven was. He had hoped that being alone, thinking, would make his head slightly more empty, yet only more questions arised. What had happened to Haven? Should he stay here?
Keith didn't know how to cope with this all. How he wished to confide someone with his thoughts and problems. But he didn't kno who.. or how.. He sighed and closed his eyes, deciding to relax for just a moment.

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O children, lift up your voice, lift up your voice,
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It doesn't matter you don't believe in God, He believes in you.

Haven nodded slowly, reluctant. "Might as well... She'd make me let her anyway." He gave a wry smile, though his expression was still troubled.

.........

Waverly glanced in the direction that Keith had disappeared to. "Maybe... Maybe I should go talk to him...," she thought aloud, worrying about him behind her green eyes.

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Lilith ran back to the two men, her face flushed, obviously having ran about the house quite a bit as not all her things were together. Her hand found its way to Haven's hair and she gently brushed it back to glare at the offending mark that had so caused his pain.

"Haven," she said tiredly, "why did you not inform me that you were injured? This would be right as rain now if it had proper tending. These stitches will have to go, they are making it worse."

She finished her assessment of the wound and glanced upward at the man. "Would you sit down? I will not be able to stitch it properly with you towering over me like that," she said with a small smile.

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He gave a pained smile and crouched down, his back leaning against the tree. "I didn't think I did that bad..." he muttered in quiet protest, apparently having tried to treat the wound himself; he grimaced slightly at the memory of the excruciating act.
"I couldn't have anyone worrying," he said even quieter, his bright blue eyes going stormy "That I would be unfit to lead..."

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(okay... at the moment I am really tired and don't have the mind to read the two pages that have appeared over the week end since my absence. Might anyone be nice enough to let me know what's going on? All I've got from skimming the above posts is that somethings wrong with Haven...)

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Married Cloud Strife 9/17/08

(( Yeah, Haven has been hiding a head injury, and also Ronin, Waverly, and Rose are back in the hall discussing everything that happened - the fight with Haven and Keith and such. Oh, and Ronin made a face to Rose that suggested he needed help in consoling Waverly. Don't worry too much about the Haven/Lilith/Tomos thing right now, since you're not in it.))

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(thanks)

Rose stood in shock at Haven's head butt. Then next thing she knew the hall has started to empty a little and she was there with Waverly, and Ronin. She slowly sat down, shaking her head to clear it.

She listened to Waverly's words, and glanced up at Ronin to see his pleading look.
"I... he has changed. I can't say much, because I never got to know him too persionally," she said, not sure what to say. She had just lost the last of her family and now she still had to go through all this amung the Shadin.

Rose put an arm around Waverly in a conforting way.
"Though, Haven has had alot of stress. He's got all the responsibilities of leading up on his shoulders, and we're around the same age. I couldn't imagine being in such a possition," she trailed off, her blue eyes looking at something far off with a longing look in them...

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Waverly clasped her hand over Rose's and gave a slight smile. "Thank you, my friend," she said quietly. "And you're right, you know. Come to think of it, whenever any of us have problems or need something, we all rely on Haven to pull us through... But who is there for him?" The thought troubled her and she bit her lips slightly. You should be...

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"Unfit to lead with a minor scratch like that?" She questioned with a derisive snort. "You must stop thinking that we will abandon you at the first sign of injury. In all likelihood you are exaggerating how terrible it will be."

The woman worked fast so as to spare him more pain than necessary. She gently swabbed the cut with a cleaning salve and removed the stitches. Her brow furrowed slightly as she threaded a needle.

"This will hurt," she warned, looking down at Haven with a sad smile. She brushed his hair back once more and began her stitching with quick and certain movements.

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Set 1: Nurr | Set 2: Me

Haven grunted softly with pain as her needle pierced the bruised flesh, gritting his teeth. His hand fisted against his leg, and he concentrated on her calling it a 'minor scratch'. He knew it was more, unfortunately - blood, there'd been so much blood..., and the onslaught of headaches he'd been battling disturbed him - but the thought of it being nothing to worry about soothed him a bit.

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She tied off the stitches and trimmed off the end. Lilith took a few bandages and wrapped them about his head to stem in extra bleeding. The edges of her mouth pulled upward and unconsciously her hand toyed familiarly with the end of a strand of hair. Noticing the motion she withdrew her hand and crossed her arms in front of her chest, trying to hide the action.

"You are going to be just fine, Haven," she said; "and if you have anymore trouble tell me," she stressed the word tell as if it would ingrain the word into his mind.

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"So maybe we need to start being there for him. Though I guess that would be hard if he plans on sending some of us away," Rose said quietly, turning to look at Waverly.
"Though, it almost seems unfair that he would put other women in danger while not letting others do anything. The rest of us are willing to loose the last of their family... have lost the last of their family, yet Haven isn't. But, I guess we can't blame him..."

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Haven gave her one of his rare smiles and caught her hand. He brought it to his lips and kissed it, showing his gratitude. "Thank you," he said. "And I trust you to keep this to yourself. As for me... I need to clear my head...."

With that, he gave her a nod, then to Tomos, and was gone, continuing his walk along the grounds. When he was far enough away, he reached up and untied the bandages from about his head. A caring thought, but he disliked it. He mussed up his hair a bit to hide the wound, remenising over her hands in his hair...

Lilith...

.............

"I can't say I wouldn't do the same in his place.... I don't know..." Waverly pursed her lips, much the same way her cousin often did; despite their many differences, like night and day, they were family. "After he's cooled off a bit, I aught to speak with him."

"Sounds like a good idea," Rose said, doing her best at giving a reassuring smile to Waverly.
"And I guess, for the time being, we should pack everyone up... if we're going to put Haven's plan to action. Though it has it's flaws... But every plan has flaws."

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Lilith turned red and then glanced over at Tomos. She knew Haven well enough to know that he would not tell her if anything was wrong. In an attempt to regain her composure - it had shattered when the man caught her hand - she coughed and said, "How long do you think it will be before he does this again, Tomos?"

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Ronin nodded, "Aye Rose is righ', Waverly. Haven'll be righ' as rain when this whole thing is over with. Now, let's start packing."

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Set 1: Nurr | Set 2: Me