[OOC: Folks, I'm not sure how to proceed here. We appear to have some people missing in action, maybe because of the long weekend, maybe not. One of them was going to be introducing the new "Dr. Hieronymus" character, which is what the bit with Kim was all about. Lacking him, and also with Maduin and Suriah apparently not back from the holiday, and with Sareth still out of contact so that Lillith is on "remote control," momentum is being lost. I'll try to move things without infringing
too much on anyone else's prerogatives, but come on back, we need you!

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Brad was getting restless. There'd been too much silence for too long ... and Lillith had been out of his sight for
much too long, which is to say, perhaps as much as an hour. Maybe Maduin and Argus would know what was going on? He went upstairs and tapped gently on Maduin's door, not noticing for the moment that there was a
whssh of magical privacy, nor the presence of Fayna's definitely non-Argus, non-Maduin voice.
"Argus? Maduin? It's Brad. I'm getting worried that I haven't heard from Lillith. Have you? And is everything okay in there with you?"
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Sister Rose permitted herself a distinct sigh of relief. The emergency medicine being applied to Kim seemed to be saving the day. [OOC: Kincaide, by all means expand on what this "emergency medicine" is, when you're back in touch. /OOC:] Color was returning to the girl's face, she was no longer trembling, her breathing was much more normal.
She'll make it, Rose thought ...
but then what?"You're too weak to go back over the mountains now," she said. "Stay with us a little longer. Whatever happened with that explosion, it's done now."
I hope. "You'll be safer with us."
That, at least, is almost surely true ... which is not to say you'll be as safe as you wish you were. Well, you're not the only one in that situation.Kim looked at the two women soundlessly, gulped, nodded ... and enveloped first Rose, then Drusia in feeble, tentative, yet heartfelt, hugs.
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Meanwhile, an unfamiliar man was approaching the stable, where Lillith and Suriah were still trying to calm the jittery horse that the late Porpington Bree had ridden into town.