Spazzing Out [Finished]

[Kari Muffin]

Loreta was more than just in a panic. She wished that could cover her ambiguous dread, and utter hatred of what was generally attached to her body. She was thankful for her ugly yellow leg warmers. That was a statement that worried her, but she was pretty sure that the leg was uglier. Rotting flesh and all.

She shuddered as she walked up to the door. Should she knock? It wasn't everyday that the random stranger you made friends with got a Lowlander leg attached to her in her sleep. Oh this was so unbelievable it hurt. She made a worried sound as she reached out and knocked on the door.

A feeling of actual regret seemed to well up inside her as she stood there. The problem was that little promise. She said she would go with him... to that dreadful place... and damnit. Just damnitalltothesuitsandhell. She just wanted to curl up in a ball and cry, but she had been doing that for a good two weeks straight and it didn't solve a damn thing.

[Vyn]

Hatter's attention perked as he heard a knock on his door.

Doorie perked as well, but both of them were still for a moment. Doorie didn't growl or make any other of his typical Unhappy noses, but there was still a sense of wrongness in the air. That wrongness, however, had been there for a good few days and it really shouldn't be anything to worry about. The fact that he had still not heard anything from Loreta had left him quite Worried; even with the very lovely distraction of meeting Miss Peaches.

The knocker could not be Peaches, for he had told her which window she could access to reach him directly and he doubted she would use the door over that. So then it must be someone else. Someone familiar though, for Doorie had still not growled, and he hoped, as he had every other time a moment like this arouse, that it would be Loreta there and that she would be alright.

Opening the door would reveal Loreta.

Just, a different!Loreta. A Loreta that was not only Bipedal, but standing on two legs and wearing very ugly leg warmers. Why was she wearing ugly leg warmers and why did she look so upset? Oh lord. Hatter had the distinct feeling that it was something worse than the fact that Loreta had lost her fashion sense.

"Lore! Come in! What's the matter?"

[Kari Muffin]

"A lot," she said as she moved past him to let him shut the door behind her. She hesitated. Telling him that she had royally screwed herself over was something she was reluctantly to do. It was bad enough that she looked like an idiot already.

"I really... fucked up." She said with a whimper. She made a awkward sort of sound between a sob and a squeak before taking the proper leg warmer off to reveal the hideous thing beneath it.

It was rotting. IT WAS ROTTING. Her wings flapped a bit with anxiety. "I don't know how it happened! I went to bed and POOF I had a leg. And I can't get it off at all. I can literally take off all my other limbs but NOT THIS ONE!" The heron failed, quite literally as she stood there.

Loreta had never been this wishywashy in her entire life. It really sucked. And she needed to stop doing it, but she obviously had some creepy thing attached to her and it wasn't going away anytime soon.

[Vyn]

Hatter had the complexed look of a puppy failing to learn the meaning of 'sit'.

Loreta was very much Upset and Hatter could not quite understand why. He allowed her inside and shut the door behind her, leaning back against it as she hurried in. She was distraught, very very distraught...and she seemed to think she'd fucked up. That only confused him more. Loreta was not the sort that he could imagine saying such a thing very often, even if she did fuck up a lot, and she was definitely not a whimpering and sobbing sort.

Well, at least he didn't have to wonder longer. Not once the leg warmers came off.

She very much was rotting. Or, well...Technically she wasn't but that Leg, a Lowlander Leg without a doubt, was. After a brief moment of understanding, Hatter was back to the stupid puppy look. She had been taking off her limbs???

He stood there, silently, for a very long moment and simply blinked and absorbed the situation. It was interesting, and the Corvie in him wanted to act like a scientist and prod at her, but it was also very not!good and Loreta was painfully upset. Better to deal with the bad first, he reasoned abruptly, and pushed himself off the door.

Without warning, he swept right up to Loreta and gave her a sound hug. Even with that leg, she as a very pretty Biped. "If what you said is true, then you didn't fuck up at all. Quite obviously, someone else did." Hatter pulled back now, his expression full of honest concern. "I'll put on a pot of tea but while I'm at it you really must explain..." Upon mentioning tea Hatter had hurried off to do as he'd announced, getting tea ready for brewing, but as he trailed off he turned to her.

"What in the name of The Queen do you mean by literally taking off all your other limbs. You can't honestly...well, you can't honestly mean you can take your limbs off. Can you put them back on? Well, obviously, if you've taken them off than they have managed to be reattached somehow."

Hatter's words came out in a rush of concern and confusion, but at least he got them all out before he burst. So many questions he had left to ask! Why did this have to be such an interesting tragedy?!

[Kari Muffin]

Loreta was very confused by a hug. Hugging where there was no sex involved was normally lost on her. At the moment it wasn't. She simple accepted the hug and choked back the tears that were threating to bother her again. At least... at least he understood. If he hadn't she probably would have died a small death. Why she wasn't sure.... she really just thought she would have.

Reluctantly the heron watched him skitter off to make tea. She guessed it could help, even if she still wasn't very fond of it. Tea was just... flavored water.

Explaining though. "I bought this leg for Rocky to study since I screwed him over rather nicely a while back. Well I flew all the way here with my new biped form and crutches and everything. Rather than show up late at night at his house I spent the night and the Inn I often stay at when I don't crash at his house. Well, I woke up and... the leg was very much attached to me. I absolutely could not get it off no matter what I tried." She paused. "But I did figure something else out."

She reached behind her and grabbed her wing. In a very quick tug she simply popped it off. Loreta waved it around for a moment before reattaching it to its proper place. "Obviously whatever this thing is it's very much magic."

[Vyn]

Hatter didn't know what else to do, besides make tea that is. Tea was tasty and calming and, honestly, it was his answer to all sorts of bad things because, in his world, it made just about everything better.

As she went back to explaining, he went back to tea fixing. For once he had gone shopping and his house was not full to the brim with only tea. There were other commodities in there now as well, such as some food and even some other beverages. One such other thing was rum. He didn't drink it, but Loreta did.

When she paused, he turned around once more and tilted his head. She didn't know who had done it? Bloody well, curse it all. He could've given the person or persons that had done this awful thing a good temporary beating. It might, perhaps, teach them the importance of not playing pranks of lovely ladies. Those htoughts, however, didn't last long. Not long at all, especially not after she promptly took off her wing and waved it about.

"Oh... Now... that...is..." He stopped for a long moment to blink a few rapid times. "That is special. And its just that new limb that is hard to get off? Yes, I have to agree, quite magical." Talk her leg being hard to get off being 'special', this whole conversation was a brilliant shade of 'Special' that he had not seen in a long time. "Does it...hurt or anything? I wouldn't want it to hurt you... I would have to be cross with whomever did it to you."

[Kari Muffin]

"Well... I know the leg is very much there. I can't feel it rotting, but I can feel that I'm standing on it." She shuddered at the rotting thought. She had gone through this before, and she didn't want to lose a leg to the same thing she had before. That was exactly why she wanted to have a mechanical leg.

She stopped thinking about that. "I need to get it off. But at the moment I don't want to tempt fate. This thing... I don't know what it could do to me. I imagine it won't come off for a reason, and I'd probably need some extensive surgery or something."

Rocky had been completely baffled by the whole situation. And he said taking off limbs was twice as hard as attaching them. That is, if you didn't want any damage to the area, and from what he said it looked like the leg was pretty well attached. "I.... I really.... don't know what to do. This leg is really really dangerous but I think getting off of me is just as dangerous."

[Vyn]

Hatter frowned as he watched Loreta. The poor girl... she finally had another leg to stand on and it was rotting. Hopefully, however, this one wouldn't rot off. After all, if she was having trouble just popping it off...as apparently the rest of her limbs now could...then perhaps it would be around for quite some time. Well, at least until they could figure out how to safely remove the thing and give her a proper limb.

"I would say, until you know more about the limb, keep it. If gives you two legs to stand on and, rotting or not, it seems stable for the time being."

The kettle whistled and he eagerly fetched it, filling cups for each of them. When he turned back to her with the tea tray, he smiled reassuringly while his eyes glinted with curiosity.

"Honestly though, being able to...well,...cleanly remove your limbs might come in handy at a latter date." He motioned to the tea kettle as he sat down. "It's a rum tea, not too alcoholic but...it should do the trick for you, yeah?"

[Kari Muffin]

She sighed. All right. Fine. She still had a knot of panic somewhere in her stomach. This whole situation just hurt her head a little more than normal. At least she had some comfort in the fact that someone wasn't going to think she was disgusting because of this horrible limb.

It was bad enough that she did. Someone else didn't have to.

She perked up at the mention of rum. Rum tea, but rum was involved. That was all that mattered. Alcohol solved all immediate problems as Loreta was concerned. "Thank you... so much for understanding. And rum tea would be downright fantastic at this point."

She said taking the cup that he offered her. Hands they were fantastic things. She took a sip and couldn't help but smile. She hadn't had anything remotely alcoholic in the past two weeks. Every since she woke up from that night.... well she didn't want to get drunk anytime soon.

[Vyn]

Hatter could understand an aversion from alcohol after what had happened during her last black out. Hell, Hatter had never even drank enough to get a black out, let alone experience anything bad from one. He didn't intend to add that experience to his repertoire either. Drunkenness just...wasn't fun.

A slight buzz, however, could be tolerated or even appreciated in the right settings. Settings like these, where you were trying to comfort an alcohol-loving friend while maintaining your obsession for tea.

"Ah, Lore, you don't have to thank me! Of course I understand!"

He sipped slightly at the tea, making a face that could only be considered adorable as he adjusted to the taste of the rum tea, and then smiled again once the taste had settled in his mouth. Rum was rum, even when mixed with his usual teas.

"Everything has its ups and downs, even things like this... There's still some bright sides to it and, to be honest, the leg doesn't detract anything from you." Hatter shrugged his shoulders, giving her a once over that was easily considered more scientific than sexual. "You'll be fine, you're a strong woman... Most people will be too distracted by that to worry much about your legs."