You've Been Clawed

Writers: Chelle, Paula
Date Posted: 11th December 2013

Characters: Milga, Veerona
Description: The two go out hunting for dinner.
Location: Dolphin Hall
Date: month 4, day 10 of Turn 7
Notes: Mentioned: Jylanya

"You want to do something fun, Vee? Like go to gather spiderclaws?" Milga
suggested. She and the little girl were just hanging around and getting bit bored.

Looking up from the picture she was coloring and writing words under painstakingly,
she nodded, wagging her head some. "Sure. You gotta basket Milga?"

"I'm sure we can borrow one from the kitchen. We also need pair of knifes. Think
how glad Jylanya will be when we bring in fresh spiderclaws to be cooked?" Milga
replied. "We could also take few sandwiches with us, so it would be almost like picnic."

"Do you have some samwiches? And where do the claws liketa live?" She had seen
the creatures but not often. She thought they had a certain place they went to where
she couldn't get.

"They grow on rocks next to the sea. I know a good rock formation. It's a little walk
away," Milga replied.

"Okay you get some supplies and I'll meet you." She had to change into her dirty clothes
so Lany wouldn't get mad.

It didn't take Milga long to get what they needed from the kitchen. She met Vee
outside again and the set to walk a rock outcropping Milga knew of. It was
outside hall's boundaries.

"Careful, that looks all slippery." Veerona was cautious, carrying her bucket. Sometimes,
she slipped and fell and banged things and that was not fun.

"Yes, it's," Milga agreed. She wasn't worried of herself though, "So, _you_ be careful too."
Jylanya would skin her if something happened to Vee.

Finally finding footing slowly, she got herself into a niche and stayed put. "Okay so where are
the claws then?" She looked around, shouting over the noise of the water.

"There," Milga pointed, "They are good at hiding so you have to look carefully." She proceed
to show how to pry them off the rock. "The important thing is to keep the
knife blade _away_ from your fingers. Just pry it under its shell and push."

Vee's eyes widened as she watched Milga with the knife. She had never been trusted with such
a sharp object before. Watching it, she wondered for a moment. "Okay." Moving forward, she tried
to find some of the things.

Milga had been handling knife as long as she could remember and
been collecting spider claws since she was four or five, so it didn't simply
occur to her _not_ to give Vee a knife.

When she did locate one, she tried to do what Milga had said. However, with the bucket handle
in one hand and the knife in the other, somehow she didn't manage it just right. Vee ended
up cutting herself instead. For a moment, she didn't cry out. Then when she
saw the blood, she let out a low wail.

"Vee? Did you hurt yourself?" Milga rushed over wet rocks to her and banged her knees in process.
Nothing new there.

"My hand!" It hurt since the salt from the water and air was
getting in the cut. She was trying to be brave and not cry like some little
kid but she saw the bleeding and it scared her. Usually there was
a grownup around. In Vee's mind, she knew Milga wasn't a grownup, not really.

"Let me see it," Milga asked calmly. She took out a water skin. "Let's rinse the
blood away first so we can see how bad it is." In the back of her head the
thought: ** Oh,my, oh my, Jylanya is going to kill me!** rolled around like
ominous storm cloud.

Offering the hand, she tried to keep her lips from trembling. Milga was a dolphineer. She knew first aid,
right? Veerona was trying to trust her. Her other hand still held the bucket.

Milga rinsed the wound with the clean water and peered at it. "It's not that bad, it's just
bleeding a lot," she said with calming tone. She found a piece of cloth that
wasn't too dirty and cut it to bandage. She wrapped the wound with it.
"Let's go back home. Better show it to a healer, just in case."

"Okay, but...what about the spiderclaws?" She didn't want to fail or have the trip be
pointless. If it wasn't that bad, then maybe she could just wait a little bit
more for Milga to get some of the critters for dinner. She also grabbed up the sandwiches.

"They can wait, they don't go anywhere," Milga said, gently pushing Vee to move towards the Hall.

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