First Aid Lessons With Uncle

[velvet_teen]

Who: Alice, Lucius, Break
What: Two kids go on an adventure to obtain a surprise present. It's probably going to go very well.
When: Late September
Where: Feed Micro-District

Content Warnings: Harm to animal (pig), harm to minors (Alice), graphic injury



So the Clock people are fixing up their house and if it's going to be all good and fixed then you need a feast, right? A classic feast. And of course you know what's real classic and homey that Alice hasn't actually gotten around to experiencing but shows up in books a lot is a whole roast pig with the apple in the mouth. This is a rare dream on any kind of budget given the difficulty of meat but just imagine. Bartering would be difficult but one could just. Perhaps. Obtain? A pig.

So the problem with this is that pigs typically belong to other people. However, the solution to this is the little guys which are about oven-sized. The suckling pigs, as they are famously known. Pigs make a lot of piglets at once and it's quite reasonable to assume that one would go missing thanks to beasts or something? So you can run in and put one in a sack and run away very quickly and then you have a pig. This is the plan.

That said Alice is not about to rope in everyone and their granny into a mission which is "technically" "a crime". So she's enlisted her shipwreck buddy into it on the grounds that he's not going to stop her. Lucius may in fact have had a part in the plan but Alice is taking credit for the whole thing.

"So this is where pigs come from... smells kind of gross."

A pigsty is pretty similar across worlds. Trench has more severe reinforcement of the pens, because of the beasts, and more mushrooms, many of which have been passed through a pig and turned into parts of the pig and byproducts thereof.

Comments

[velvet_teen]

Violence solves all problems. The pig opens its mouth to do a particularly wrathful echoing screeeeel, and Alice kicks off to flop ungracefully over the fence.

The pig looks like it's fixing to charge.

"Lucius," she's not barking any orders, just saying the name of someone she trusts because she's panicking.

[lludw]

That is more unnerving than anything else. She's badly shaken. How much blood has Alice lost? It's hard to tell with the way darkblood dissipates. Lucius kneels down next to her and gestures towards his shoulders. "Come on. Let's go."

It's her turn for a piggyback ride.

Especially as the actual pig in question has backed up against the opposite side of the pen in preparation to possibly slam through the fence.

[velvet_teen]

Piggyback rides: much safer without a real pig. Alice gladly latches onto a trustworthy steed who will probably know what to do or at least where to go now that they've ignobly failed their mission. She is shedding blood all the blazes over so at least she is a light burden to heft and doesn't have to put any weight on that leg in order to lever herself up.

"Where,"

[lludw]

Where? Where is the closest place they can grab proper supplies?

"Home." In the moment, he doesn't think twice about using the word. He's thinking instead of the distance and the spare clothes and extra food he has stashed in the shed. They can get in there without risking too much notice and bandage her wound. They'll need to clean it, first...he thinks there's a canteen of water in there...

There is a massive thud behind them as the pig starts its attempt at a jailbreak. Lucius tightens his grip on Alice and puts on speed, grateful that she's not as heavy as he might have expected.

Emrys swoops overhead, returned from his post. :I'll let you know if the thing gets out.:

[velvet_teen]

"Good."

Alice's head bonks down onto Lucius' shoulder. She's gripping onto his shirt like a vise which is how he can tell she's not unconscious. She might prefer to be so. She is feeling shredded like a cabbage. Cabbage goes well with pork, but sadly, they have none of that.