Night Delivery (Lesla's Baby)

[Houka Ryuu]

IC Date: June 8, 2013
IC Time: 10 at night
IC Setting: A cold rainy night. It's 50 °F outside the weyr, and 65 °F inside the weyr.

Lesla & Green Houkath in Lesla's Weyr
Lesla was in her weyr getting ready for bed. Her flits were already asleep in various places around her bed and any flat surface that they have chosen to sleep on. In truth, she should have been sleeping at the Infirmary for the past sevenday just to be on the safe side, but Lesla didn't like sleeping away from Houkath. This is the reason why, we find Lesla in her own weyr, in her jammies, just about ready to tuck herself into her bed.

Houkath was also curled up around herself as if already asleep. In truth, Houkath was wide awake and just waiting for the time that Hers will finally give birth. If Houkath wasn't mute, a soft humming would already be heard coming from her. As it was, Houkath was just up and ready to give support to Hers should it be needed.

When Lesla was about to sit on her bed, her water broke. She gasped for it meant that she was about to give birth. At the same time, all her flits woke up, took a look at her, and promptly started humming, fit to wake the dead. Despite her situation, Lesla tried to hush her humming flits. "Quiet you silly flits. You'll wake everybody else up." she admonished her humming flits.

Houkath had also turned around to look at Hers. She noticed the soaked clothes and the puddle of water at Hers' feet. Without preamble, Houkath sent an image of Hers with the soaked clothes and the puddle of water at Hers' feet to Skirth. Hopefully, Skirth was still up and he'll let His know that Hers was about to give birth. Just because Houkath was deaf and mute, doesn't mean she hadn't learned to communicate in other ways. Sending images and emotions was one way for her to communicate to others.

With her water broke, Lesla knew that she should make her way over to the Infirmary. Hopefully the contractions wouldn't start yet. She didn't bother getting out of her wet clothes, she just took a shawl to put it around her shoulders. Thankfully, it wasn't cold in the hallways, as Lesla made her way to the Infirmary. Her flits flew about her, humming along the way. With all the commotion, someone must have heard it. Lesla just hoped that someone would be Liam.

Houkath had watched Hers get out of their weyr. She wanted to go with Hers, but she wouldn't be able to fit out there in the hallways. Silently, Houkath sent her love and support to Hers. All she could do was hope that Skirth received her message and hoped that Skirth's rider will find Hers quickly.

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Liam was't sleeping- he rarely kept to a sane schedule, always had been bad at that. He was just laying one one of Skirth's forelegs reading, narrating bits to the dragon as the big black creature (who was eavesdropping on his rider's mind) asked for clarification.

He'd been in the middle of a rather wordy bit of Shakespeare (Liam had been switching between that and 'What to expect when you're Expecting') when the dragon had stopped paying him any mind and gone quite still.

Then had come the images, and then- Mine, I do believe Lesla is having her child. Skirth said calmly.

Well.

After that news, one of them had to be.

Suffice it to say, Liam did in fact get the message. And the man was bolting down the halls as soon as he'd managed to shake Spock awake and send him to Houkath to try to find Lesla. When the little brown found no one there but Houkath, he chirped at her, and returned to his human, passing on the best he could the jumbled message that his flit brain translated as 'Hallways'.

So Liam ran toward her Weyr, hoping to intercept her. "Lesla?!"

[Houka Ryuu]

Lesla out in the hallways
Lesla had just reach the intersection of the hallways when she heard Liam calling out for her. She looked towards one of the direction where he could see him coming towards her. She had winced earlier hoping no one would have heard Liam's shout. Still, Lesla was glad that she saw him before she got contractions and before she got to the infirmary. Besides, her stomach was so big that she hasn't seen her own two feet in some months now, let alone the floor beneath. It was just fortunate that there weren't anything along the hallway that would trip her, and that the hallway was lit well enough with those electric lights. That was an innovation that she liked about Earth. She didn't have to worry about dimglows along the way. Lesla stopped where she was to wait for Liam to catch up to her. With a smile on her face she softly called out, "Liam, I'm here." After a pause she added, "As you can see, my water broke." as she gestured down her soaked clothes. "And fortunately, I'm not having contractions yet." Lesla said as she leaned on the wall of the hallway waiting for Liam.

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Liam gave a moment's thought to feeling bad when she winced, but quickly gave that up in favor of worrying about her over anyone he might have woken. Priorities, okay?

"Skirth told me...well, he told me what Houkath told him...there really must be a more efficient way of doing this." He said, glancing at her nervously and...well. Trying to figure out exactly what was going on. (Those books only went so far, and said nothing about the edge of the line between freaking out and ...more freaking out ... that he was standing on.)

Still, he nodded, taking in what she was saying- and looking terribly relieved. "So you're feeling okay, then..." He tried not to laugh slightly, but he was smiling at her. "I'm glad. Infirmary, then? Must be where you're headed..." He didn't quite know what to do, but he fell into step alongside her. If she needed even the slightest bit of help he'd be there.

[Houka Ryuu]

Lesla
Lesla just nodded in reply. She was fortunate that she wasn't having any contractions yet but she still walked carefully towards the infirmary. She did reach out her right hand towards Liam. She rather have him to lean on just in case she started to have contractions along the way. Lesla did let Houkath know that Liam has managed to find her. She didn't want Houkath worrying too much about her.

Seichou and the other flits, flitted around Theirs, humming along the way, and just generally letting the world know that Theirs was in labor. Whether anybody else will investigate the commotion is anybody's guess.

Houkath sighed in relief when she heard Hers letting her know that Skirth's Rider, Liam, had been able to catch up to Hers. But that didn't mean that she wouldn't worry until Hers came back to their Weyr safe and sound. She fidgeted as she tried to wait for the next set of news from Hers.

((OOC: Let's have them arrive at the Infirmary already.))

[redwerecat]

((Aye Aye, Houka!))

Liam nodded, and when she reached out, ducked over to stick close to her side, taking her hand and further, her arm. He didn't really know how much support she might need, but well. That whole 'not going to let her go alone' thing. Still didn't know what to say, of course, but damn if that ever stopped him.

The rest of the trip was more silent, since Lesla was kind of, you know, in labor. Spock followed her flits along, chirping in kind to make sure that everyone possible knew the news- Liam violently though rude things at him and wondered if duct tape was a viable option for making him shut up. Skirth informed him that would probably be animal abuse. Liam informed him right baxck now was hardly the time for such levity. Skirth wondered then, why in fact Liam was then wasting such time arguing this point when the Infirmary was in front of them.

Oh. So it was.

One of the night staff came to greet them, though the nurses face went from sleepy confusion to alarm and then immediately, alertness and understanding. "Oh dear." She said, calmly. "I might be ahead of myself guessing here, but I'd say you'd be in need of a delivery team, now wouldn't you, my dear?" She patted Lesla's arm.