CR Campaign Two: Mighty Nein era (characters)

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Re: Anyone. Caleb? Unconscious body

[(Anonymous)]

Caleb’s eyes open and the smell is wrong. That’s the first thing he notices. He should be smelling himself, as disgusting as it sounds. Smoke, bat guano, stale sweat and sour leather from his coat. The particular metallic earthiness from Nott curled up against his chest. These are normal to him by now, living as they do in the road. Expected. Right now he smells nothing.

The second thing he notices is enough to bury him beneath a heavy load of panic. He find he can’t move his body. Caleb tries to roll from his stomach but his limbs don’t respond. His shoulder doesn’t turn, his toes when he tries to wiggle them lie still as a corpse.

His eyes- he can move those a little. He can blink, scan the room frantically, squeeze them shut in horror. He can’t cry out, though he tries, over and over

Caleb can hear his breathing so he knows he isn’t dead. His heartbeat pounds in his ears like a drum so he knows his heart hasn’t stopped. Caleb tries to take comfort in his own breathing and heartbeat, the rhythmic pattern of it and fails. Instead he makes a conscious effort collect his thoughts. A neat checklist.

He isn’t dead. He can feel his pendant, poking hard into his collarbone. No one will be able to scry on him in his vulnerable state. That at least is a relief. He can see his spell books removed from their holster and stacked neatly on the floor. His clothing is nowhere to be seen.

Caleb still has no idea where he is.
He had fallen asleep in the woods with Nott, sitting with his back against a tree and her on his lap. He was inside now, flat on his belly on a strange bed. There is a linen bedsheet under his cheek and mid morning sun coming from the window.

Nott? His eyes roam wildly around the room again. He sees a mound of blankets next to him, close enough to touch if he could only move his hand. The light shifts a little through the curtains and he sees that the mound is Nott-shaped. It’s face is haloed in Notts hair, so dark green it looks black. She is lying on her back, arms at her side. She’s nude.

Caleb’s never seen her naked body before, though they have been traveling together for weeks . They rarely bathe. They have no clothing except what’s on their backs. When she squats in the woods, he turns away.
Her body looks fragile laid out like this, birdlike. There’s a blanket draped across her waist, preserving some modesty, but he still feels compelled to look away from her.

His eyes adjust to the light and he takes in the details of the room. Wooden walls, a covered window. The only furniture is the bed they’re laying on. Linen sheets and a soft blanket like some of a more upscale inns he remembers staying in with Master Ikithon. The door is latched and locked from the inside. They have been placed here like dolls in a dollhouse but for what purpose?

The fact that Nott is nude fills him with dread. His eyes flick back to her, guiltily. Her hair is softer looking than he’s ever seen it, spread over the pillow. It’s been...braided? Tiny intricate braids follow the crown of her head. Someone has placed delicate yellow flowers in the joins of the braids and tucked a larger white flower behind her ear. She’s nearly glowing, scrubbed cleaner than he’s ever seen her. Her scaly green skin is almost iridescent like a beetle‘s shell. She’s been oiled. She smells like jasmine and honey. It makes his stomach roll to think of someone washing her, removing her crusty traveling clothes and dipping her in water. She must have been unconscious- a living thinking Nott would have fought tooth and nail. She’s too peaceful like this, too clean. It makes him sick.

“Caleb?”
Her voice is gravelly and small. He opens his mouth to reply but all that comes out is a breathy gasp. Still an improvement from no sound at all.
Ah ah ahh. He gasps and groans, frantic to let her know that he can hear her.
“You can’t talk, can you?”
He squeaks in assent.
“I couldn’t either at first. You’ve been out for so long. I tried so hard to wake you but you didn't respond. We’ve been here for hours.”
Thirteen hours, seventeen minutes since his eyes had closed under that rotten tree. How many of those hours was Nott awake, calling out for him?

“I can’t move, Caleb. Not a muscle.” She whispers. Me either. He wants to tell her. He wants to scoop her in his arms, cover her nakedness with the blanket and get them both out of here. He settles for what he hopes is a reassuring grunt.
“They cut your hair…” she says desperately and he realizes that she’s right. His head feels cold and naked, cropped very close. They’ve shaved his face too. He’s as hairless as a child, he realizes. There’s not a tuft of hair anywhere on his body. He thinks of his body being propped up, the smoothness of his neck offered to a razors edge. How vulnerable he must have been.
What else had they done to him? He’s not used to not remembering, losing time, not now.

It’s panicking him and he has to start again mentally listing all the things he knows to be true. He’s alive and Nott is alive. They’re being kept for some unknown purpose.
They, whoever they are, have...handled them. Touched them. Groomed and cleaned them. The implications are not good- he tries to slide past those worries and focus on facts. His little friend is here and whole and breathing. Their clothing is gone, his books are stacked.

Where is Frumpkin?
“Ah Cah.” He hears himself say. “Cah. Cat.”
“Cat? Yes, your cat! Good job Caleb! You’re talking!” He hasn’t been praised for stammering out a simple word since he was a toddler. He rolls the world around his mouth, delighting in the movements of his tongue, growing more nimble with use.
“My cat.” He says.
“I haven’t seen him. Can you sense him near?”
To his great disappointment he can’t sense anything. “Nnnno.”
“I’m scared.”
“Yes.”
There is a moment of silence between them before Nott speaks again.
“...Did they hurt you?”
“Not...shure.” The second word is effortful and slurred. He’s almost embrassed until he remembers that he couldn’t speak at all a moment ago.
“I’ll slit their throats.” promises Nott.
“You? Hurt?” He manages.
She doesn’t answer him, deflecting his worry and continuing onto the next thought.
“When they come in again, pretend to be asleep, ok?”
He wonders again how long she must have laid there panicking while he was unconscious. How she must have despaired when he couldn’t answer her. Again? That means they’ve been here before. Why won’t she answer him? What have they done to her?
“Hurt you?” He manages. “Who they?”
“Some magical fucker in a cloak. A couple of human guards. They don’t show their faces.” She spits this info in disgust.
He furrows his brow at this. Such avoidance of his question. The simple action of moving his face ,however, thrills them both. He longs to touch her hand. He manages to lift one finger to tap on the bed and she squeals like someone witnessnig a miracle. If he can speak and he can move his hands, he can cast. But what will save them? With Caleb barely moving and Nott not moving at all, most of his spells would only trap them more. His mind flits from idea to idea. He needs to get them out, to free them before they are hurt. Maybe Nott has already been hurt and won’t tell him out of shame or fear or some misplaced sense of protection.

He hears the door open and he doesn’t have to fake freezing in fear. He hears Nott’s quick intake of breath, a little gasp. She stays silent after that, as still and stiff as a doll. He tries to look asleep, peers through the bottom of his eyelids at the men that entered. It was as Nott said, an armored guard and a thin lithe man in a deep cloak. When he leans over Nott, Caleb can feel the burning of the man’s strong perfume in his nose. The man trails one finger down Nott’s cheek and, getting no response, moves his hand to cup her chin. He turns her face back and forth, admiring his handiwork, and mutters something to the guard. The guard turns and leaves them alone with the cloaked man. When his hand begins to slide down Nott’s neck to her chest- Caleb lunges. His play acting must have been convincing because the man is completely caught off guard when Caleb throws himself across the bed. His limbs are still limp and useless, but he manages to headbutt the man in the jaw. He hears the sickening crack of the man’s teeth hitting each other. He lands face first on the softness of the bed just as the man hits the floor. It’s an amazingly lucky shot but he knows he only has a moment to regroup. His left arm moves easily to push him up. His right is harder, much harder to move. It takes all his will to force it too to bear his weight. He aligns his hands just so and flings them toward the man, now lying crumpled at their feet. Fire springs from his palms and engulfs the man, who promptly starts screaming. It’s a stupid reckless thing to do and he finds he can’t make himself regret it. His left knee finds purchase on the bed and helps to push his body up. Miraculously he is able to stand, unsteady and swaying in place. He looks at the man on fire at his feet, looks at Nott frozen with terror on the bed. His body begins to move without him. Cerebral Caleb, a creature of intelligence, is being moved by his own body like a puppet. He is a construct, a machine, moving in fits and starts. His movements are jerky and flailing, but he is at last able to move.

It’s as if he is seeing himself from the view of a bird, moving without thought. Caleb watches himself grabs his books and slip his coat on his shoulders. He scoops Nott up, bringing the sheet with her and tucks her up against his chest like a baby. He crosses the room and locks the door. He steps over the burning, dying man. He won’t let himself look down. The man is screaming but it barely registers to him. He looks down to where Nott is hyperventilating in his arms. He picks a bit of pillow down from her hair and casts another spell. He flings himself from the window, curling his body protectively around Nott as they drift down slowly. They are higher up than he thought and for a moment, it almost feels like they are flying. He lands, miraculously again, on his feet. The stone pavilion jars his shins, sends him reeling and twisting but he stays upright.
“Run.” Nott hisses urgently. “I need you to get us away from here now.” She’s still not moving in his arms but he clutches her tighter anyway.
“Keep going.” She says desperately. “Don’t stop for anything.”
His feet listen to Nott though his mind wants to give up, to crumple to his knees and weep. He runs like a newborn colt, out of the unfamiliar town and into the wood. He stumbles and weaves and falls. Thorns gouge his ankles and soon he is leaving bloody footprints behind. Nott directs him from against his chest. “Left” she says and steers him from running straight into a pond. He can feel her commands echo through his chest and it’s all he can focus on. “Keep going.” Caleb runs and runs. His chest and muscles burn as he runs faster than he ever has. He stops to vomit up an unfamiliar meal and Nott finally makes him stop.
“We need to hide.” She says.
He shucks his coat and places her in it, wraps it around her and tucks her into the hollow of a tree. With Nott safe, at least physically, Caleb breaks. He crumples to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. Some dim part of his mind registers that he is not hidden. He’s slumped in the clearing on his back, nude and vulnerable and obvious. Caleb can’t move. His mind goes back to the room, to the bloody face of the man on fire. He’d looked so suprised. He’d screamed so shrilly. He thinks of the man, writhing and crying and dying. He can’t stop thinking of it. Caleb is as paralyzed now as he was in the room. Paralyzed but conscious this time- he can hear and feel everything from the burn in his lungs to the scrape of the dirt on his skin.
“Caleb?” he hears Nott’s voice from the hollow. It echoes, sounding bigger than it is and he instinctively shrinks away.
“Don’t go away again please.” She says. “I need you here with me. You saved me. You’re so brave. Please stay with me. Please.”
He knows he should respond but he can’t.
“You’re amazing Caleb. You freed us. Try and stay with me.”
He lets his eyes close and all he can see is the man’s skin melting off his skull.

It’s been 37 minutes since Caleb went away inside his own head. His eyes snap open. His hips are covered by a scrap of bedsheet, his books are under his head like a pillow. When he turns, he sees Nott naked in the dappled sunlight, dabbing at a line of blood running down her thigh with a scrap of cloth. She ducks behind a stump when he moves, freezes like a scared animal. His joy at seeing her up and moving overshadows what he has seen for a moment. When he realizes the implications, he closes his eyes to avoid looking at her. How cowardly, how disgusting he is, to leave her alone with her pain. A few moment more, and he fakes an awakening, yawning theatrically and sitting up.
“You’re awake!” Nott says with palpable relief. She clutches a larger scrap of sheet to herself like a towel and moves towards him. A streak of gold comes with her and he’s amazed to see his cat- whole and solid. Frumpkin climbs into his lap and begins to frantically purr. He rubs his golden head on Caleb’s hands and face as if checking him for wounds.
“He followed us. Chased us through the woods and watched over you while you were...out. I thought they killed him” Caleb’s muscle memory takes over and he begins to pet the cat on his lap. “They threatened to skin him and-“
“Are you alright?” He interrupts.
She pulls the fabric scrap tighter around herself and shivers, though the day is not cold.
“Are you?”
He considers a moment.
“No.”
“Me either.”
They watch each other warily for a moment.
“We should keep running.” He says finally. “We’ll need to find clothes, supplies...money.”
She puts her tiny hand in his and pulls him to his feet. Somehow even now, she’s taking care of him. A wave of guilt at his uselessness floods his mind.
“I don’t want to ever talk about this again.” She says with an air of finality. He can give her that much, at least.