Comet popped a bubble herself to show that is was safe, and watched the red raccoon hit one with her paw. That was good, some improvement. Many often thought that bubbles were a useless spell, when in fact they were a really good icebreaker, and helped to settle disputes.

Then suddenly, a huge, blinding light appeared next to the raccoon. "... Wisp," So that's what it was, a wisp. "Wow!" And right then, Comet got an idea. She summoned up her energy and a huge bubble appeared, guided towards the wisp. The wisp lit up the bubble next to it, casting a sparkling blue light below.

@Kitty

Kitty turned her head, and the wisp moved into the bubble. The surface rippled for a moment, nearly imperceptible, but then there was a tiny glowing prism between the two of them. The water refracted the light in all directions now, and Kitty sat down on the branch, starting to lick at her gory-looking paw. She tried to unsheathe her claws and hissed -- this one was halfway torn off, and bleeding profusely. It'd never heal properly like this! But at the thought of remedying it, she started to shake.

Not everyone had the mental acuity for self-surgery. "Stupi' claw," she muttered at it, not even able to lick the wound without immense pain. Was she going to be able to hunt like this? Kitty had no idea, but she was also shivering from cold now -- even in the warmth of Eridanus, the water was cooling fast and she hated it. Kitty didn't know what to do, so she just made another wisp on the opposite side of her.


@comet

Comet hoped that this would make the red raccoon start the trust her, and in the light of the wisp and bubble, she momentarily forgot that they had even had a fight in the first place. But she heard a hiss of pain from the raccoon, and spotted their bloody claw.

Ooh, that looked bad. It was true that something like that would not be able to heal, she remembered that in one of her own adventures a nail had been hurt. How had that been fixed? Hmm, you had to wash the area, then... tear off the rest of damaged part. She could not imagine the pain that would cause, but it had to be done. Another wisp popped into existence, and now there were two wisps next to the raccoon.

But first things first, you needed to wash the area. "Could you come down? I can help with your claw."

@Kitty

Kitty frowned, looking down at the wolf. Her tail dangled down from the tree as she weighed her options back and forth -- Comet didn't seem to be mean... not anymore, anyway. But what if she changed her mind--? She made an unsure noise, but the fear that her paw might get infected outweighed her caution, and so she tucked it in and tried to climb down the tree -- horizontally, as red pandas tended to do, by turning her back feet outward. Without the stability of her other claws, she went faster and jerkier than she'd meant to. Finally tumbling tail-over-head onto the ground, she made a face and held it out to Comet.


@comet

Comet watched with relief as the red raccoon climbed straight down the tree. Quite an impressive feat, considering the pup couldn't climb at all. But going headfirst down a tree that not even many other creatures with claws and tree climbing abilities could do.

Soon, the bleeding paw was held out to her. Okay, it was time. She pushed the magic into the ground, and felt water come up and form a small pool. "How about you wash your paw in it?" Comet thought it would be better for the raccoon the wash it herself, because it was already big enough that she had decided to climb down the tree.

@Kitty

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A moment passed, her ears flattened against her head, and then she took a small step towards he water before dunking her paw into it. She hissed at the stinging and jerked her paw back on instinct, but then pushed it back in as the water quickly colored red. She frowned and her tail lashed back and forth. "Hurts." Still, she knew this wasn't a pain Comet was causing -- it was just a pain she was already experiencing, intensified slightly by the coolness of the water (although the heat from the wound was leeching out nicely).

"N-Needs to--" She cringed, a cold pulse of anxiety and revulsion twisting through her. "Gotta come off," she whispered. "Can' do i'. No' me."

@comet

She held her breath as the raccoon dunked her paw into the pool of water. Comet could almost feel the pain herself when Kitty jerked back her paw. Any open wound, even when washed with clean water, still hurt badly when cleaned. The water turned red quickly, which meant the wound must be pretty bad. The blood flow would have to be stopped, but now came the problem of pulling out the claw.

The red raccoon diagnosed the problem herself, and Comet realized that it fell onto her to pull it out. Oh shoot. This would cause pain, so much pain for Kitty if she were to do that. But it needed to be done. Still struggling with the fact that she was the one who had caused this whole fight in the first place, she reached out and gently took the claw in her teeth. Comet could still taste blood on it, but her only response was to tighten her teeth. It wouldn't do to have to try pulling it out twice, having to endure that much pain was horrible.

"One... two..." she looked directly into the raccoon's eyes, trying to show her that is was going to be okay. "Three... four..." there was no five. Comet held the claw firmly, and tried pulling her head back in a sudden jerking motion.

The claw came out cleanly, easily, in fact. Spitting out the chunk of claw, she turned back to the raccoon. "Are you okay?" Something would be needed to ebb the sudden rise in blood coming out of the gap, now that not even the claw was there to stop it.

@Kitty

gore

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Kitty sighed and closed her eyes, not daring to watch. She didn't even want to know when Comet was going to do it, and it seemed like Comet had the same idea. Kitty was expecting three, and was a little surprised when Comet kept going, opening her eyes to look at the wolf strangely and then letting out a scream as her claw was torn out clean. Kitty let out a shuddering sob and collapsed onto the ground, still bleeding profusely. She kept howling for about forty seconds, and then started to sob quietly as the pain faded to an ebb and flow of manageable misery.

But finally, she managed a ragged, sad, and somewhat hoarse "I will be." She smushed her face into the ground, paw still bleeding into the grass and water as she tried to think about what to do about it over the general pain and unfortunateness.


@comet

Kitty's scream made Comet flinch, and a wave of guilt washed over her. She knew it had to be done, but the fact that she had caused that pain made her feel bad. The red raccoon's sobbing and howling didn't help either, and all the pup could do was put a comforting paw onto the animal if Kitty allowed.

She almost couldn't tell her that it wasn't over yet. "Now... we need to wrap it." She looked around for some things she could use. Finding none, she continued comforting the raccoon with licks.

@Kitty

Kitty relaxed into Comet's touch, her ears laid back as her breathing came out rough. She looked up after a moment and glanced around. She pointed out an abandoned spider web and whined. "Moss an' that. Moss'll catch the-- the--" She shuddered. "An the webs'll make it sticky." She sniffed and let Comet take care of her -- it was easier than continuing to try and fight it.


@comet