Zakiyah couldn't help wince at his shouting and at the thought of this drow doctor poking and prodding her in his tent for the next hour. Oh, honestly....back in my day they'd have recognized the mark, and the name of Validor, and the sari...nobody knows the Lorekeepers anymore...perhaps War Scribe is right, and I AM a relic...Such dark thoughts, accompanied by the weariness of having returned from death twice in a day, were enough to keep her from protesting overmuch. Besides, she wasn't going to put on a show for them by ranting and raving. If he got too fresh she'd use the truth aura, and he'd at least have to believe her words, but the thought of using so much mental energy was exhausting. Perhaps if she just cooperated they'd let her sleep and leave her alone.
The thought that Validor would be clumsy enough to leave metal bits in her was insulting, though! She glared at the very idea. "Metal shards, indeed! All I require is rest! And don't patronize me. I've met Death twice today and I'm really not in the mood to be treated like a child. However, since I am not at present capable of walking, and wish to spare myself the humiliation of being tossed over someone's shoulder again..." She was all wounded dignity as she lay on the stretcher they'd brought, her face burning.
"May I at least ask what a group of drow mercenaries are doing camped here? And where is HERE?" she added, as an afterthought, realizing she hadn't a clue where she was now. And since when to Drow chiurgeons give a damn about wounded Vallifreyan women who drop into their midst? she wondered wryly.
((Doc'll notice misc anatomical stuff that'll mark her as not entirely human- niggly stuff like a wamer body temp., slower heartbeat, darker blood, slightly pointed ears, missing pulses 'cause her arteries are rearranged, that sorta thing. If he gets that far, he'll find a faded scar on her chest that looks an awful lot like someone shoved a knife in it several years before, and another that he'd swear looks like an arrow wound now decades healed....of course, Zak's not gonna be too happy if he gets THAT far. *lol*))
