The Darkness Encroaching

[Paxari]

Almost immediately, his body bursts into flames and one of his spikes extends to Arke's knee, Piercing it.

[Arke]

Shouts a fairly impressive repertoire of curses, though not all in english, or even in any sort of language, continuing even after he has dropped his rifle and fallen to the floor. He stops only long enough to take a breath before sitting up and going on as he tries to remove the spike.

[Paxari]

An evil voice envelopes the tavern "Ah ah ah, not so fast big boy. Time to 'Clean up' he he he." He quickly rose and proceeded to spit acid onto the coyote, contracting the spike. The flames that enveloped him were now gone, and an unnatural cold set in across the tavern, freezing drinks.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She curses and sits up next to Arke. She pulls out a fairly big vial for the small pouch it came from. "Here use this on the acid." She says as she hands the vial to him. She spins her legs around and knocks the creature's legs out from under him. She slashes him some before moving closer to Arke again.

[Paxari]

As he rises once again, he turns and leaves. "You will never be beautiful again Arke. Enjoy being outcast." Soon as he leaves, the coffin on his back bursts, revealing his 6 foot wings. He takes off and disappears from sight into the darkness.

[Arke]

He dumps the contents of the vial on himself, biting his muzzle to keep from screaming. His claws dug into the floor, and two streams of tears flowed down his muzzle, from which a steady flow of curses still flowed.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She looks at Arke's knee after watching the creature leave. She pulls out another smaller vial and takes the cap off. She looks at him. "That should take full affect in a minute or so and you'll feel fine." She pauses and looks at the vial and his knee. "This is going to hurt some but the pain should stop in about 20 seconds or so." She slowly pours the contents of the vial on his injured knee. She puts the vial back in her pouch along with the other one she had given him to treat the acid burns and looks at him again. "You're going to be fine."

[Arke]

He growls as she pours the questionable liquid over his knee. On the bright side, he had stopped cursing. Of course his eyes burned, his flesh stung, and his knee was in almost mind-numbing pain. His claws dig deeper into the floorboards as he clenches his fists.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She continues to look at him. "Talk to me, Arke. Talking will take your mind off the pain." She grabs his drink off the table, holding it in front of him and not expecting him to take it, she'd pour it in his mouth for him if he needed her to. "Drinking something helps too."

[Arke]

He shakes his head but smiles. "J-just do me a favor and hit me over the head with a barstool..." His eyes were closed tight, tears running down his muzzle.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She chuckles and shakes her head, setting the drink back on the table. "That would just give a very bad migraine when you woke up. The pain is going to be gone very soon, I promise. The bad thing about this stuff is that it doesn't slowly bring down its own pain, it does it more instantaneously. All the pain'll be gone in about 10 seconds." She smiles reassuringly and puts her arm around his shoulders.

[Arke]

He is about to bite down on his arm when all of a sudden the pain is gone. "Nevermind the barstool thing..." He slowly gets to his feet, though his knees are understandably shaky. "Maybe we should call it a day, eh? Two silvers should cover a roof over our heads for tonight."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She chuckles and stands up, examining him. "Yeah, that's a good idea." She gently lifts his arm by his hand and puts it around her neck while putting the other arm around his waist. "But I'm helping you because you're still shaky." She said, making it obvious that she wouldn't take no for an answer.

[Arke]

He nods and smirks. "Whatever you need to tell yourself..." He sets his coinpurse on the bar and starts limping up the stairs to the rooms, grabbing a key from one of the hooks.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

She moves along next to him up the stairs to the rooms. "Well, I know how this stuff works so I guess I do need to tell myself that." She chuckles. At least Arke was in a good mood for being in so much pain before.