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Helping Offa
The drive over to Stanley Park is pleasant, the sky still in the midsts of afternoon glow, the clouds occassionally parting for Jacob's ladders here and there in the distance. Dodai smiles as the Symphony remained calm and undisturbed, as it ususally was in this peaceful city.
The forces of Destiny had been doing very well, furthering Heaven's cause with very little disturbance to the harmony of the Symphony. Thoughts of what might be Offa's problem creep into Dodai's mind. The message had felt urgent, paniced perhaps.
But which demonic factions would be interested in disturbing the peace of the park? Factions, maybe, or Greed as there had once been such a tether in the park. Maybe even Death, though the "Babes in the Woods" murders had occured over fifty years ago. Perhaps some of the demons in the downside east side had creeped off their territory. The only strong demonic force within the City of Vancouver that she really knons of is Technology, but she and Cosam . . .
Dodai is thankfully distracted from the painful memory of her former lover by her arrival at the George Street entrance and the park's World Class Aquarium. This is where Offa would be found.
She could see the reliever's celestial form hovering just to the right of the entrance to the aquarium. As Dodai is approaching, a passing mother's baby laughs in her carriage, giggling and pointing at the tinker-bell like reliever.
Offa flies up to greet the Mercurian. "Dodai! Dodai!" it sings in the Celestial tongue. "Follow me!" The reliever flies quickly up in the air, turns around and looks back.
Dodai, still in her human vessel, cocks an eyebrow at the twinkling spot of light. Sighing, she walks inside the aquarium. Miniutes later, after the disturbance of someone going Celestial ripples through the Symphony, her Mercurian form rises out of the building.
[Dodai]
"Is it far?"
[Offa]
"No, not very." The reliever leads the Mercurian past Lumberman's Arch up past the coast and over the sea wall. "This is it!" she exclaims.
"This is what?"
"This is where the trouble is!" The reliever flies downward and into the water. There, in the depths Dodai can see an injured whale.
[Offa]
"I don't know what its doing here, but it needs help and I'm all out of essence! It can't stay here much longer!"
Dodai sees immediately what the problems are. First of all, it's not where it needed to be, second of all it's much too young to be all alone and third of all it's bleeding pretty badly. It looked like it had gotten hit by the blades of boat.
Gathering some Essence, Dodai focuses on a Song of Healing to heal the baby whale.
[Dodai, Corp. of Healing, TN=9, 4, 4, CD6, 30 hits potentially healed]
The beautious melodies of the Symphony surround her celestial hands as she holds them near to the whale's corporeal form. With a soothing warmth and a shining light, the whale's wounds close shut.
"Oh, thank you, Dodai!!" cries the little reliever. "Thank you!"
"He's healed now, but he won't find the rest of his pod without some guidance. You guide it away from its blood, I'll ascend and find a servant of Jordi to come down and take care of this."
"I'll get him away from here, he'll be fine." The reliever says as it dances in front of the whale's confused face.
And with that, Dodai ascends.
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