trying to hide the squirming bundle

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Zoe tucked her shirt in, trying to hide the squirming bundle within. She'd done a good job so far, smuggling it in from the forest to here. It probably helped that Zoe had, well, she'd paralyzed it, just a little. She couldn't help it though! The little creature had obviously been in pain, though Zoe had attempted to tend to it as best she could. Zoe could certainly understand being in pain, being lost in the woods and hoping that someone came and saved you. Zoe still wore several bandages leftover from her own forest based assault, which had been another, admittedly more selfish, reason for her to stun the creature.

now, however, Zoe had reached the stables. She moved to an unoccupied stall, grabbing some hay and arranging a sort of mini-bed. She opened up her blouse as best as possible, sliding the little creature into the hay. The stunned animal rolled quite easily in, only squeaking a little. It blinked and looked up at Zoe, who smiled down at it. The creature was, in fact, a little baby fox, one had only recently gotten its adult coloring and some of its adult fur. It blinked several times before looking up at Zoe and letting loose with a cute barking/meowing noise. Zoe studied it for several seconds, looking it over.

Something had gotten to its leg. Zoe had already torn off some of her skirt to wrap about the wound for basic first aid, but she was hoping that she'd find something more for it in the stables. She was also hoping that she could manage to find an idea of what to actually do with the creature now that she had it tucked away somewhere relatively safe. She removed a glove again to give the creature a little pet, wanting to feel its soft fur as well as give it another stun. Once it shivered and stopped, Zoe began looking around, rummaging through various shelves and the like, looking for something that could help her tend to the wounded little creature.

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 Lou walked to the stables, she was a member of the equestrian club and just wanted to say hello to the horses. She felt today would be a good day. As she walked she whistled a tune to the birds in the sky and on the ground. She loved her gift of taming animals but it was not that helpful through the animals point of view all the ever did was protect her and she could not protect them.

 When Lou made it to the stables she petted all the horses one by one and said hello to them as she did so. When she reached an empty stall, she noticed it was not completely empty there was a girl there and something in front of her. A fox? she walked closer and noticed the animal was wounded. She seen the girl dress a ripped part of her skirt to the wound. She had to do something to help. "Is it ok?" She petted the fox's head as she spoke. Its fur was a lovely feeling on her fingers as she massaged its head and then she looked at the girl. "Is there anything I could do?"

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

{Zoe technically patched up the fox before she got into the stables, but that's okay; no big deal ^.^}

Zoe nearly jumped at the voice, turning to look at the newcomer. She didn't immediately recognize the girl, but that was hardly surprising, since, well, she wasn't exactly the most gregarious of persons. The question took a while in processing, with Zoe blinking dumbly while her brain worked through it. The animal; the  girl wanted to know about it ,even reached out for it and gave it a scratch, offering help.

"Um," said Zoe, shuffling her feet. It felt like she'd just gotten caught doing something naughty, which she had, technically. She raised a hand and rubbed at her arm, wincing as she felt the stitches in her arm pull a little. Dr.Campbell had promised that she'd heal up quicker with them, even with his powers, but they still bothered her. She looked over at the animal. "I'm not... sure?" she admitted, unable even to phrase that without making it sound questioning. "I, um, well, I just, sort of found it like this," she said, nodding. "Well, not like this. I did that," she pointed at the bandage, "and, well, um, I, well, I just, wanted to help it, I guess. You wouldn't, um, happen to, ah, have any, um, healing powers or anything?"

Well, it was entirely possible. Zoe had met at least one person who did, that very same doctor who'd tended to the gunshot wound on her arm and her various other ailments. She swallowed now, looking at the other girl full on now. She looked pretty; the girl, that is, very feminine and all.

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 Louisa looked at the girl she had not seen this girl before but then again she was not very observant of people. She sat down beside the fox near the hay and then listened to the girl as she said she was not sure if the fox was ok and then the girl asked if she had any healing powers. She looked up at the girl and she shook her head.

 "I'm sorry I don't. I am Louisa by the way, I'm only an animal tamer" she petted the fox's head "I can only calm the fox down. Maybe we should clean the wound" pointing to fox's wound on its leg. "Will I get water for it?"

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Zoe sighed as the other girl admitted to not having a healing power. That would've been a little too convenient, wouldn't it? The girl introduced herself too, adding her power. Didn't everyone around here introduce themselves like that? Zoe wasn't sure she wanted to. She offered a quick, small smile regardless, nodding. "Um, I'm Zoe," she said, before turning back to the animal. Did it need calmed? It didn't look all the worried, laying there in the straw and looking up at Zoe. Then again, maybe it had something to do with the fact that Zoe had been stunning it lately. That would certainly do it.

Louisa was right though: they certainly needed to clean the wound. Zoe nodded. "Yes, we should probably do that,' she said, shifting her feet and chewing her lips, staring down at the animal. "We should probably, um, look for something else to clean the wound too. Like alcohol or something." Zoe reached down, lightly touching the fox with a gloved hand, sighing before reaching to remove the gloves again. She couldn't really afford to get them dirty, and she figured that paralyzing the fox a little more would probably be a good thing. Get it situated for the cleaning and all.

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Lou knew that it was inconvenient that they did not have healing powers but she guessed they had to make sure the fox was ok by hand. She calmly put her hand over the fox's face before saying to Zoe "I will go and see if there is anything that could help" She stood up and looked around the stall to see if there was a water bucket with water within it. She saw one in the corner and dragged it to Zoe. Then she walked to the stall door and turned and said "I will only be a minute" Lou was really unsure if she would find anything but then a thought came to her that there might be medicines or cream for the wound in the stable. 

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Zoe nodded as Louisa said she'd go and look for something. It was only after the girl left that it occurred to Zoe that Louisa's ability to deal with animals might have been useful, possibly better than Zoe having to paralyze the creature yet again. Too late now though, so Zoe simply stroked the creature a few more times, cooing at him and trying to get him to calm down emotionally along with the paralysis. The fox did seem a little more at ease with Zoe now; that generally happened when an animal realized you were taking care of it, not to mention learning that there wasn't much point in resisting.

Once the fox had settled again, Zoe looked around, noticing Louisa looking about. "I believe there's some medicine over there," she said, pointing. She'd been in the stables before with Mr. Konrad, so she did know where a few things were. Oddly enough though, Zoe hadn't actually encountered the stablehand. She supposed it was just their schedules not meshing. She had, however, located where several medications were. "There should be at least some antibacterial cremes and the like," she said, trying not to sound overly hopeful. It only made sense for there to be some animal medication in the place where a vet treated animals, right?

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 Lou went over to where Zoe pointed and she found some medicine she looked at all the medicine bottles there were, there was some antibacterial cream, bandages and a sponge nearby. She grabbed some cream, bandages and a sponge in her hands. She walked back over to Zoe and put the stuff down. "Here you go" she said to Zoe.

 Lou put her hand on the fox it seemed quite calm and Louisa wondered what power Zoe had which could calm the fox down like that. She stroked behind its ears. "I honestly don't know why I brought the sponge but I just grabbed what I could carry. The anti bacterial cream seems fine" She said pointing to the cream.

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Zoe looked over all the stuff, pausing for a few moments. Louisa held it out like Zoe knew what to do with it. She took it, held it in her hands, stared some more. Zoe was vaguely aware of the other girl moving over to calm the fox, mentioning that she wasn't even sure why there was the sponge.

"Right," said Zoe, nodding,"we should, um, probably clean the wound and such, yes?" she looked over at Louisa, smiling. She only held it for a few seconds before sighing. "I'm not really sure what to do here. I haven't really tended to a wounded animal like this before. You wouldn't happen to know anything, would you? Besides just cleaning it..."

she looked at the creature, chewing her lip. That had been the entirety of her plan, in actuality: clean the wound.

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 It was clear to Lou that Zoe had no idea what she was doing. Zoe looked at Lou and asked if she knew what to do. Well... Louisa knew how to look after a horse and parrots but had never dealt with a fox before. She looked at Zoe and thought none of them had a clue what they were doing. So Lou thought about wild animals. "Umm.. I do know that after cleaning we need to put the cream on and then bandage the wound put not too tightly. Was the fox limping badly when you found it?"

 She asked this as she knew by watching some wild animal charity stuff on television that if a wild animal was liming badly that it would need to see a vet.

 

[Zoe Wallerstein-Smythe]

Zoe did sort of know what she was doing, at least in wide, general terms. she swallowed nervously, nodding as Louisa repeated what she should've already known. Clean it, put the cream on, bandage it. sounded easy, especially as they both had powers that could calm the animal down. She took several more deep breaths, working to steady her nerves.

"It wasn't really moving at all,' she admitted, glancing over at Louisa. She took another deep breath, then leaned over, beginning to work. Zoe knew she had to move quickly, because she couldn't touch the animal's skin well. She could move aside hair though and work at it. She looked over at Louisa, fidgeted, "Um, could you, would you help, like, get it clean and all?" she asked, figuring that two sets of hands would be better than one in this case. Plus, maybe having someone else help would help steady her nerves...