( open ) like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins

[eviscerates]

WHO: Ruby Lucas & open.
WHAT: Following the events of the missing shard bearer plot (here) Ruby insists on being taken to the dungeons and held there until she is fully detoxed from lyrium.
WHEN: From a gently timey-wimey point in mid-September to early October, at least. She may be in the dungeons longer, depends a bit.
WHERE: THE DUNGEONS, Skyhold.
NOTES: Rumours page & OOC report details, although the latter is more likely pertinent to people who were on the mission/were told about the mission directly/the advisors than general gossip. Alsi new cr is welcome! Ruby's info sheet is here.
WARNINGS: Horror themes! Reference to the events of the shard bearer plot, which include the Wolf attacking and eating people, forced lyrium ingestion, hallucinations, death, violence, torture.

She’s never forgotten that she’s a monster, that the people of Storybrooke had been ready to take up arms against her. Ruby Lucas wasn’t the sweet girl who remembered your coffee order and fixed you whiskey neat from the top shelf on a bad day. She was a vicious, wild thing. The Big Bad Wolf.

After the mission she told them to kill her or shackle her, and when she arrived back to Skyhold she refused to go to the medical tents. It wasn’t worth the risk - keep her locked up, keep her cloak bound across her throat so she couldn’t pull it away during a delirium. She had to stay in at least a month, she had to try and keep people safe.

The first two weeks she’s still recovering from her injuries and the lyrium is still distorting her memories and thoughts and what she sees, leaves her with a constant thirst and the unhealthy pallor in her skin is obvious. Treating the injuries will be ongoing, but the first week she sleeps almost constantly, and the second she is struggling with memories. If people visit during this time there is ever chance of her mind taking flashes from other people’s memories though she can’t make sense of much of anything.

After that she can be found in different states.

She might sit on the floor with her hands through the bars, putting together the most basic, non-volatile components and mechanisms for traps, setting then all in a box to be taken to the Requisition officer.

She might be standing with rotten fruit sliding down the side of her face and splattered across her clothes, perfectly still. Either the guard just hauled the offending fruit thrower who posed as a visitor out, or they might have been distracted by another job so the produce producers are there to be chased off. Unless your character would throw fruit? But then they might be hauled away.
(Note: probably only two of this one unless we work something particular out, just because I don’t want to undermine the efficiency of the Inquisition’s guards at protecting prisoners, even willing ones.)

Ruby may have stripped down some and be treating her wounds and attempting to change dressings and apply poultices, because healers shouldn’t have to go into her cell, as far as she’s concerned. Vicious puncture wounds dot her skin, perfect circular marks that are mostly uniform, but vary in size here and there. There is a jagged gash over her ribs and a burn across the other side, which make her hiss as she tries to pull the rank dressing away.

Or maybe she’s just sitting or lying down on her side, defeated and curled inward.

Wildcards welcome, pick your own location-limited adventure and give me an idea of timeframe/if you are okay with Ruby picking up memories or not if it’s set during the first couple of weeks.

Comments

[wontforgetyou]

"We'll have to order you a set from Starkhaven. Maybe when you're ready we can ask Adelaide. She was the one who got me mine to start with."

Hey, maybe she'd even be alright with having Ruby learning to play - although maybe not so much if she winds up practicing around her. Jamie may not be all that successful when it comes to getting a relationship going, but even he knows that practicing piping is probably not something most lovers would want to hear. At least not all the time, anyway.

But it seems that there's an alternative to that, and there's a flicker of curiosity that appears the word 'schnapps' and doesn't disappear, even with word 'dragged' brought into play.

"What side project would you be meaning, then?"

[eviscerates]

That makes her smile brighten a little. "For sure. Don't think I won't!"

Learning the bagpipes, God. Maybe she'd be better at learning the bagpipes than at learning to cook or knit - the prior she'd just about gotten a handle on, but the latter? Yikes. It was possible that it was Granny's teaching methods that were the problem, thought it was was probably best not to go there.

A little breath, and she takes a second to organise her thoughts. Everything is still so shuffled and messed up from where it was meant to be. "I made some schnapps for that snow fight a while back. Team Spirits, it was... a pretty lame idea, honestly." She shakes her head, a little sheepish. "Adelaide liked them, though, and figured maybe if I could produce enough of them that they could sell, maybe make a profit. Make enough of a profit, and then maybe it could be a way for rifters to raise some funds for ourselves, you know? Not be a burden on the Inquisition, be a little bit more independent, that kinda thing."

That said: "And I wanted to be able to make some mixed drinks from home, actually."

[wontforgetyou]

Ruby's welcome to take as much time as she needs to get her thoughts organized. Heaven only knows that his have been just as scrambled and disjointed, although that does seem to be getting better as time goes on. Once she does, though, he listens, slightly puzzled at first - but then he gets what she's saying, and the look of realization that crosses his face is not only sudden but visible enough that it's quite possibly obvious even from a few feet away.

"Oh aye, I see! It'd be a way for the rifters that help to be able to make some sort of a living here eventually assuming you can get it to work out. Just with some extra benefits, that's all."

And if those benefits are ones that remind her of home, well...that's not so bad, really.

"So are you thinking just schnapps, then, or something else?"