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[Angelique]

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His blood curdling screams filled the compound of Isk, announcing his arrival. Angelique met the child at the steps, whisking him up in her arms and running up to the tub. Ripping what was left of his red robe off and carefully lowering him into the water, all the while attempting to calm him with her soothing words tho inside she was frantic. "Athlon, get me a pair of scissors, and then write out a note to GeeMa. Just write 'HELP' and sign your name and send it with my Raven." The tone of her voice and screams of his twin enough to tell him it was urgent that he hurry.

With care she slipped off his mask, cringing as skin came with it. The deep burns on his face bringing tears to her eyes. His raven hair singed to scalp in many places, his scalp already forming blisters. Gingerly she uses the scissors to cut away his leather armor, releived to find only mild burns underneath. His skin intact. His bracelet and ring leaving pulling skin with them as she removes them. With Athlon helping to calm his brother after sending off the raven to her vacationing mother, she carefully cuts away what hair remains. His eyelashes and brows burnt off in the fire.

Eva arrives rapidly and quickly assesses the situation. Taking a vial from her bag and pouring the contents down Auris' mouth, she tells him and Angelique it will help the pain. Eva instructs her daughter in what ingredients to grind together and form a salve while she sets her grandson, Athlon to work cutting long strips of clean bedsheets.

After he is cleansed and covered from head to toe in the salve, Eva bandages his head from the neck up, and wraps his ring finger and wrist. The medication beinging to take effect, Angelique is finally able to get out of him a bit of what happened. "T-they c-came to StoryMan's, t-they ...t-they ...FIRE!" Auris' returns to his uncontrolable crying after being forced to relive the event.

Leaving him in the elder gypsy woman's arms to console him, Angelique races off in a fury to Poet's Garden to find out just who did this to her son. Shaking with anger as she speaks with Poet, the charred remains of a bonfire by his door and a large gathering of people milling about. Poet takes her shaking hands and tries to calm her as he explains that The Order of the Ebon Skull came to make an appearance and made a ritualistic bonfire of sorts. Auris had hid near the doorway, afraid to go back into the building as he was told, having remembered stories of Walter's son having burned in a tavern fire there. Poet tells her how he did not know exactly where the boy was standing til he saw he run from the flames screaming, and jumped in the water barrel at the neighboring house. Before the shock wore off and pain set in the boy had recalled to home.

Poet insists Angelique sit a moment and calm her nerves with a cup of tea before returning home. He distracts her briefly with other news, his tea indeed calming her nerves. As she hastens back home to her children she desperately wishes her lie of her husband being at home with them were true. The two gypsy women would take turns attempting to sleep as they tended to Auris throughout the night.