holds up butterfly is this king midas

[survivaltricks]

WHO: some wayward thistles and visitors!
WHERE: thistle barn
WHEN: early morning, day 6

[if you're an early riser, you may see a trio of thistles— two of them covered in blood and one of them with an arm of solid gold— stumbling back to their barn!]

[it's fine!!]

Comments

[thistles only]

[survivaltricks]

[as soon as they make it inside, Lupin is hoisting Loki to the nearest bed, shouting as he does so]

Odin, get me a wet towel--

[shortforever]

[He does it, but he looks concerned when he comes back. Here have a towel.]

He's still...what're we gonna do?

[He's dealt with a lot before, but never anything like this. Medical stuff is beyond him.]

[cultofthesham]

What the—???

[literal_trainwreck]

[half-deliriously reaching over to prod at the gold arm with the good one]

[survivaltricks]

[taking the towel from Odin, immediately pressing it against a few of Loki's still oozing wounds (from the scisters. . . he has no idea what to do with that golden arm)]

[to Odin]

We have to heal him. Now that we're back in the pasture-- [it should work, right? he buts himself off and shakes his head]

Hey, Loki. We're going to heal you as best as we can. It might hurt a bit, but bear with me, okay?

[survivaltricks]

[YES HELLO GHOSTLY TEAMMATE]

I think we found out where the demon ram lives.

[literal_trainwreck]

[looking up at him with unfocused eyes]

[shortforever]

Shit-

[And he just. Punches Loki.

He'll try to hit him somewhere that's currently uninjured to soften the blow a bit, Which probably means a shoulder. But he knows he has to make it hurt for the healing to work well.]

[survivaltricks]

[jesus christ, that look, that unfocused gaze--]

[Lupin lets Loki do the punching. he's grasping at Loki's hand and squeezing it as tightly as he can]

Stay with me. Okay? It'll hurt, but that's a good thing. It means you're still alive.

[cultofthesham]

Oh. Great. Well that explains everything.

What’s wrong with him??

[ flitting over there, taking a look ]

[survivaltricks]

[holding Loki's hand while Odin does some PUNCH HEALING]

I don't know.

[keeping his tone PURPOSEFULLY EVEN but there are threads of anxious panic in there]

He was hurt by. . . something; you'll have to ask Odin about that.

And then the ram turned his arm into gold because we pissed him off.

[shortforever]

Scissor birds or whatever they're called.

[Hi he's also still bleeding from his arm thanks.]

[literal_trainwreck]

[wheezes at the punch, but when he opens he opens his eyes again there seems to be a little more light in them]

...Shit.

[survivaltricks]

[. . . yeah, speaking of--]

[PUNCIHNG ODIN'S SHOULDER TOO. pretty hard, in fact; it'll hurt, but hopefully help]

[shortforever]

[owfuck

But hey it's healing him at least.]

We couldn't have been the 'talk positively to heal people' team, could we?

[shortforever]

Hold on, I've got you.

[Punch punch punch punch]

[survivaltricks]

[giving Odin a grateful look as the healing kicks in, and some of the worst wounds being to seal up]

. . . we both do. Okay?

[nooooo dying!]

[survivaltricks]

[ANOTHER PUNCH because one doesn't seem like enough]

It's really contradictory, isn't it?

[shortforever]

[He winces, but he does need it.]

Okay, okay, I think I'm fine now.

[survivaltricks]

[has his fist pulled back, knuckles slightly red from both Loki and Odin's blood]

. . . are you sure?

[literal_trainwreck]

[hisses and nods]

K... keep going.

[shortforever]

[He's going to move to punching somewhere else on Loki to keep from hurting that spot inadvertently.]

How's the arm looking?

[You know, thr gold one.

[survivaltricks]

[. . . glances at it. . . and frowns]

No good. It's not changing back.

[presses his lips together tightly]

Loki, can you move it?

[shortforever]

[He rolls up his sleeve to check his injured arm. The wounds aren't completely gone, but they're closed at least.]

Yeah, it should be good.

[survivaltricks]

[a relieved exhale]

Good.

[. . .]






That was a disaster.