#goldfinchfreehold

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Jimmy knocks on the door desperately

Sylvi checks through the window before opening it. "What's the matter...ah...Jasper?"

An apologetic grin as she's pretty sure she got the name wrong. Again.

"Jimmy.. Dirk's hurt. Need a healer"

"What?! Hang on...." She ducks back in quickly to warn any fae present to be on guard, and she secures the door as she heads back out with...uh...this guy. "Where is he?"

"About a half mile... you were closer!" Jimmy races expecting her to follow

She does, and keeps up! She also has her Bowie knife in hand, just in case.

"I stashed the body in the alley..." Jimmy explains, huffing. Piskie are nimble, but a half mile run will wear most of them out

"The body?!" Sylvi's a troll and an athlete. A half mile is nothing.

Pretty soon she's either grabbing his arm to pull him along, or forced to slow a bit... but either way, they get there

The alley way next to the laundry mat is a bit grungy, but also shadowed well

and there is Dirk... hastily bandaged but it seems to have saved his life as he's a damn mess.

Then there's 'the body' a man with his throat bit out

"Dirk, what the hell?!" She stares at the dead body. "What have you done?"

Then she shakes her head and goes to kneel by him, checking his wounds. She turns to...uh...Jimbo, and hands him a couple of dollars. "Go in there," she indicates the laundromat, "and get a soda. Mountain Dew or Dr Pepper are best. Quick!"

"... i won" dirk croaks

Jimmy is already racing and huffing to get a drink as directed

"Tell me after I fix you," she hushes him.

She rips off a bloodier bit of his shirt, her fingers slipping on the slick fabric.

"... kay... if.. I don't make it... tell ... tell symon I... didn't hate him..."

the loss of blood has made him loopy with sentimentality

A smirk. "I'll be sure to remember that."

"Got the drink" Jimmy comes in "All they had was DIET Mountain Dew"

He hands it over

A wince, then a determined look. "That is going to make this work better," she says firmly as she takes the can and cracks it open. She starts singing, "Put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em bot' up, put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em bot' together...." as she shoves the wad of bloody fabric into the can, some of the soda spilling out as she does so.

She puts her thumb firmly over the opening in the can and shakes it, still singing.

Building carbonated glamour.

Dirk is muttering "mom's gona be pissed if I die.. gonna get grounded..."

She pauses in her song to tell Dirk, "Open wide."

Well his mouth opened to say that about his mom, good enough!

"You put de lime in de coconut, you drink 'em bot' togedder
Put de lime in de coconut, then you feel better
Put de lime in de coconut, drink 'em bot' up
Put de lime in de coconut and call me in the morning!"

And she tosses the shook-up can of bubbles and blood into the redcap's mouth.

He sputters and gulps and... gasps as the wounds fade, well, the worst of them. he really was screwed up

"I'm gonna puke" Jimmy looks away

Sylvi kind of agrees, but then again, she's seen worse. "Better?" she asks Dirk.

"Yeah" he still sounds hoarse, but not near as pale

"Good. Look, we gotta get you away from...this..." she indicates the dead body. "And you need time by the balefire." And a shower, she adds in her mind but not out loud. "Can you walk?"

'Yeah.. I can..." he rises

She helps him up and supports him. "Nothing to see here, nothing to see here, nothing to see here...." she repeats it seven times, bunking for a Veiled Eyes that will hopefully get them all back to the freehold unnoticed. A quick glance at the bloody mess left behind, but she can't afford to think about that right now.

"Sec.." Dirk says "My knife fell somewhere"

"This knife? I found it" Jimmy offers it up

Wait, that's Sylvi's knife! It will Keal!

"Not mine, but it'll do" Dirk takes it

"That's mine," she says through gritted teeth, taking it out of Dirk's hand.

A glare at the piskie, then a deep breath. "Can you find Dirk's knife around here?"

"Okay.. found it" he hands another knife to Dirk

Dirk nods "Okay, Know this one better anyway" It looks like a surgical knife, almost a bone saw. Which works, because he cuts the head off the corpse where throat had been bit "Gotta complicate the crime scene. "

Jimmy turns and DOES puke

She sighs. "Okay, okay, but we've gotta go."