Time draws near

[carabadgermum]

Out of the corner of her eye, Kolia caught the sight of the sun glinting off metal as Sergei sheathed his weapons. She turned to face him. "No trouble, I hope," she smirked at him. She knew the power struggle of a leader trying to stay at the top. Roask often had to knock his subordinates down a peg.

[Silas]

"none at all." Sergei affirmed, his voice having a slight edge to it as if to match the cold weather about them. Narrowing his eyes partially against the weather, he gestured for them to follow. "This way. 'E isn't that far." He assured them, referring to the healer.

[carabadgermum]

Kolia was still a little apprehensive to follow this creature she hardly knew. She tugged Ally forward on the lead rope. In the last few weeks since she had captured the hare she had become more than a hostage she was, well, Kolia wouldn't call her a friend. Kolia didn't have friends.
Ally picked up her pace. She felt sorry for the weasel, pitied her. She was a friendly creature by nature and even if Kolia was a vermin and had captured her, Ally was going to make the best of the situation and try to do what she could to help the the poor mother-to-be. At least until she could find a way to escape.

[Vrelt]

Vrelt appeared walking beside Kolia, "You know, you can't ditch me that easy." After Kolia and Sergei left the bar Vrelt had dismissed the vermin waiting outside, and followed the weaselmaid. Vrelt smiled wickedly, "I almost forgot; you owe me another glass of ale. And don't say anything, there's nothin' you can say to make me turn back, mainly cause I ain't got nothin' better to do, and I traveled half way through Mossflower with you, looking for Roask. So I'm still coming."

[carabadgermum]

"I don't owe you anything." She kept her eyes front as she walked stolidly onward following Sergei. "It's not my fault if you're a clumsy oaf and you can't keep a hold of your drink. Maybe you shouldn't drink so much."

[Vrelt]

Vrelt laughed, "Maybe I wouldn't have dropped it if you didn't start screaming." He glanced at Sergei , then he pulled out his flask, "You see this, it's empty, and it's been empty for weeks. That was the first real drink I've had since that wine I had when I was traveling with you. So I'm not drunk, anyway, I still say you owe me."

[carabadgermum]

"Yeah I think you'd scream too if you had to pass a watermellon out of your nose." She mumbled under her breath. "I feel sorry for Romsca if she ever has your whelp. She certainly won't get any encouragement from you." Kolia tried to step up her pace and leave him behind but speed was not something she was capable of while carrying the twins. The wind whipped cold around her and she wished again for her own tent and a warm fire. She remembered the ways she and Roask and thought of to keep warm last winter but then again that was why she was in this mess, wasn't it?

[Silas]

Sergei, meanwhile, merely led the group onwards, listening in and taking note of all that was said. He almost laughed aloud at Vrelt. Only fools wanted more of the same, that was his philosophy in the world. It wasn't long until they came upon the healer's residence. Sergei pounded on the heavy door with a clenched paw twice, and stood back to wait.

[carabadgermum]

Kolia stepped up next to Sergei, still trying to rid herself of the ferret. "This is the place?" she asked apprehensively. She still didn't want to go inside a building. "You don't think he'd come out here an talk to me?" The second question was more of a whisper.

[Silas]

"Andrew'll heal anybeast, so long as their demads are reasonable." Sergei replied, knowing that he himself had went to the healer a few times. As he finished the door opened, revealing a russet-furred vixen, clothed in a white nurse's dress and apron, still fussing about with the string at the back. They weren't expecting visitors. "Er... He'll be with you shortly, Sir." The young vulpine informed Sergei, seeing Kolia behind him, her appearance seeming to make the maid fidget. Sergei had seen her about town from afar, and from what he gathered, she couldn't be much older than Kolia by a year or two. "Um, would you like to come inside while you wait?" She offered, almost forgetting to do so.

[carabadgermum]

"Looks, awful warm in there, Marm." Ally spoke up wistfully.

Kolia ignored her. "I'll wait right here." She was rubbing her stomach unconsciously. The twins seemed to be sleeping now. She liked them best that way, though she couldn't blame them for wanting to be free of their tight confines. "Soon," she whispered to them.

[Silas]

The vixen looked at Kolia with a raised eyebrow of curiosity, but did not inquire furthur. She didn't want to get on anybeast's bad side while she was working... She closed the door to keep the heat inside the building, finally tying off the apron. One would think that the town infirmary would be flooded with vermin drunkards after a barfight, but no. Darkwood was a quiet town, despite the thin menacing overlayer. She sighed and went off to find her 'boss', Andrew.

Sergei, meanwhile, scooped up some fresh snow, licking it once before throwing the rest into the street. Leaning against the doorway, he waited patiently in the cold.

[carabadgermum]

Ally sighed and tried to pull her thin wrap closer around her shoulders. "Wot exactly do you 'ave against a jolly warm roof an four walls to keep the ol' wind off a beast?"

Kolia shuddered again she was thinking of the dream she'd had back at the abbey. She would not run into the arms of some four walled prison no matter how comfortable it might be. "Walls are for keeping creatures locked up. Roask's sons will be born free." She too was cold but she would only enter this building if there was to other choice.

[Silas]

The door opened again, and the face of a greying stoat came into view. He first saw Sergei, then Kolia, smirking.

"Aye, Ramikov, Last year y' come here with a broken wrist, now this..." He gestures vaguely to the weaselmaid. "She's not with me." Sergei hurriedly explained. The stoat chuckled. "But o' course. Never doubted ye, lad." He opened the door fully. "here, come inside outta th' weather." He offered, just as the vixen had done before him. "It'll do ye the world o' good." He added, still eyeing Kolia, as if assessing her 'situation'.

[carabadgermum]

Kolia looked at the stoat and then looked around at the other creatures. She felt as if they were all trying to push her inside. She resisted the urge to run knowing she wouldn't get very far and she had nowhere to go. Maybe she could just go in for a little while, just to get checked out. It wasn't as if she was going to give birth right now. She wasn't in labor yet. She looked around once more wishing that this theater troupe that Ally claimed the existence of would suddenly appear out of nowhere. She took a reluctant step forward and then another, looking for all the world as if she was being dragged to her execution.