Every Healer's Nightmare.
Mar. 2nd, 2003 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveI stand here looking down at the palid grey of her once light filled face, her bright blue eyes closed against the blood and blackness I know I will find there when I open them to see... Her exhaused betrothed, the father of the child she, by some miracle, yet carries, encircling her with his arms. He'll not let her out of them I know until she either wakes or fades. The child's light too gutters as does his nana's. I cannot help wondering, worrying where it was that we went wrong. How did we fail her so badly?
My beloved told me the barest facts in the shock of the aftermath last night... the fuller report came to me from one of the healers under my order at first light. A massive systemic infection by the insidious poison that makes the wraiths.
She had been treating others so afflicted for months... all of us have, and what happened her is every healer's nightmare. We'd been so careful - managed to avoid cross infection of the many un-natural afflictions brought to us by this war - so what went wrong this time? I cannot imagine Lareth would have been careless with her own care, the basics of any healer's lessons, let alone the automatic life saving practise of the Masters... of which she was one. How did we fail her? How can we avoid further incidences of this?
She has so much reason to live... at yet the feeling of her aura today... it is one of helplessness and despair; it is one of a deep sickness from which many others in the Healer Hall do not recover. And if we have missed any little thread in the purge that - according to the notes - almost took her from us...
I do not want to have to be the one to hand the Laticus to Tevelari in a tenday and sit with him as he grieves her light, though I fear so much this will be my role. Pray I-Arelen that I am wrong.
Kethe
My beloved told me the barest facts in the shock of the aftermath last night... the fuller report came to me from one of the healers under my order at first light. A massive systemic infection by the insidious poison that makes the wraiths.
She had been treating others so afflicted for months... all of us have, and what happened her is every healer's nightmare. We'd been so careful - managed to avoid cross infection of the many un-natural afflictions brought to us by this war - so what went wrong this time? I cannot imagine Lareth would have been careless with her own care, the basics of any healer's lessons, let alone the automatic life saving practise of the Masters... of which she was one. How did we fail her? How can we avoid further incidences of this?
She has so much reason to live... at yet the feeling of her aura today... it is one of helplessness and despair; it is one of a deep sickness from which many others in the Healer Hall do not recover. And if we have missed any little thread in the purge that - according to the notes - almost took her from us...
I do not want to have to be the one to hand the Laticus to Tevelari in a tenday and sit with him as he grieves her light, though I fear so much this will be my role. Pray I-Arelen that I am wrong.
Kethe
