Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24530992-20140811160952/@comment-5583506-20140811215103

When Mara slowly opened her eyes everything was out of focus. She had been undressed and tucked into a comfy bed with a thick sheet. She could hear her own breathing as weak wheezes. It was a sound which could almost give her a mental image of what her appearance looked like right now.

"Oh, you poor dear", said a female voice next to her.

Mara turned her head with much exertion. "Who's..." She coughed. "Who's there?"

"Antonia Mincius", said the Imperial woman beside the bed. "And you are?"

"M-Mara", she shivered. "M-Mara Hollow-Song."

The woman gave her a sad smile. "You are okay now, sweetie. You gave me and my brother quite a scare out there. We both thought you were on the edge of Aetherius with the way you shook."

"I am cold..."

"It's the fever talking, dearest. You must still be thinking that you are out there in that horrid weather. It's warm in here, I can assure you. My cloghead of a brother even made up a fire for you, see?"

Mara didn't have the energy to raise her head to see the fire in the hearth. "W-Where am I?"

"Windy Watch", answered the plump woman. "It is me and my brother Quentin's homestead we enherited from our esteemed uncle Tontillius, rest his soul. You have an amazing view from up here. You can see all the way to the Imperial City." She shrugged. "Well, what used to be the Imperial City anyway."

''Is that where they could've gone? ''Mara wondered.

She tried to crawl out of the bed. "I... must... g-get there... m-my friends... I..."

"Nonsense!" answered Antonia harshly and qucikly got up from her chair in order to tuck her patient back in. "In your condition you are not going anywhere, and you are not going out there in just your skin!"

Mara looked down on herself and suddenly realised that she was indeed naked. ''Well, this is awkward... ''"But my friends... they are..."

Antonia looked as if she was going to object again, but was interrupted as the bedroom door flew open and in came a jolly-looking man dressed in a brown tunic, carrying a stack of firewood.

"Ahoy, sister dearest! I am back and I..." He fell silent as he gazed upon the woman in the bed, staring at Mara's exposed breasts.

Antonia became quickly aware of this and smacked him hard on the head causing him to drop all the firewood. "You revolting creature! Staring at her like that! Get out! Out!" As she chased the man off and started picking up the firewood he had dropped she glanced at Mara. "Better cover your top half, sweetheart. That good-for-nothing oaf would surely come in for another gander or so before the day is over."