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[wheatencrown]

The door opens onto a huge, wandering garden still waiting for the first touches of Spring.

Demeter holds the door for a moment and makes sure that it stays to the Bar as she rests her other hand on Ben's, watching him carefully.

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[thebrokensoldier]

He'd taken her hand and followed her through the door. Though as they come into her own world, hazel eyes look around the place. It's different. Nothing that he's used to. Which would consist of rainy Seattle streets, bunks of Manticore and the Nomalies.

Those tremors, however, have no intention of stopping. In fact, they're worse than when they started.

[wheatencrown]

His tremors are really worrying her and she leads him to a bench under an overgrown trellis,

"Ben, why are you trembling? What do you need?"

She knows food but this is something more and if she could, she would summon a better healer.

[thebrokensoldier]

The trellis catches his attention if only because it's new to him. Then he looks to her and frowns a bit. He's not sure what exactly he needs though...

"Botched job." He mutters. "Messed up in the head." He murmurs.

[wheatencrown]

"Then I'll get you some food, dear. Just stay right here for me and I'll be back in a moment."

She drops a kiss on the top of his head and heads to house as quickly as she can.

The garden has two personalities he might see as he looks around, one that is wild and full of weeds and the other that is slightly more organized and full of fruitful plants and grains and bright flowers.

[thebrokensoldier]

He's not quite sure where she got food out of all of that. But that doesn't sound bad to him. It's been a while since he's eaten anyway. And a lot of the times he won't eat. Not when it comes to the stuff out there.

He blinks at the kiss placed to his head and just sits there and waits as he looks. Though he frowns seeing the one side of the garden thats wild and full of weeds. It needed to get better.

[wheatencrown]

That was how Kore liked it, so she got her own part of the garden.

Very quickly Demeter returns with a bowl of oatmeal full of cut up apples and pears, a glass of milk and a pot of tea that is placed in front of him,

"Now eat this slowly and it should help you."

[thebrokensoldier]

And the cat in him comes out to the forefront because it's the milk that he goes for first. So shaking hands pick the glass up and drink quite a bit of it before he goes on to the oatmeal that was in front of him.

[wheatencrown]

She sits beside him on the bench, watching him eat, her hand gently resting on his back. If the trembling doesn't stop, she is finding Asclepius, because he knows better.

[thebrokensoldier]

That trembling... it isn't going to stop because of food and milk. No, he has to have medicine for it. Only problem is he's never taken the stuff. So he couldn't rightly tell her exactly what's needed and what isn't.

[wheatencrown]

Understanding mortal bodies is not her strong suit but Demeter needs to know how to make Ben well.

So with her hand on his back she opens herself slightly and tries to see him as she would a wilting plant.

It helps a small bit, she can sense the foods that what he needs but she's not sure of its pure form.

She stands up and returns soon with even more food, all containing that element he is missing and even with an added measure of it put in by her.

[thebrokensoldier]

The young X5 can only eat so much. But it's not truly what he needs. The food that is. Yes, it has the element of what he needs in it. That's helping the shaking 'somewhat' but not fully. Something needs to be done and to get rid of this thing completely... that would be a miracle.

Either way he eats what he can before shaking his head. He can't eat no more no matter how much she puts down in front of him. He's eaten enough as it is.

[wheatencrown]

Demeter sighs as she watches him, she hates this since it isn't what she does best.

So the food is cleared away and then she focuses and creates a glass of tryptopan,

"Drink this, its what you need."

[thebrokensoldier]

In all retrospect he doesn't truly know what he needs. But he trusts her. In all the time of being in Milliways, Demeter has become one of the ones he trusts. And he doesn't trust people that often. So it's a big feat for him.

Giving her a smile and, yes, there's possibly even light purring he takes the glass and starts drinking. When he turns his head away from her (depending on how she's sitting) she might catch a glimpse of the barcode on the back of his neck.

[wheatencrown]

The bar code catches her eye and she reaches up to stroke his back and look at it.

To her it conjures images of money and power and she can't think why he would be marked so.

She gently runs her hand over it and smiles at him,

"Tell me of yourself, Ben."

[thebrokensoldier]

And it's more him than it is her. But the moment that barcode is touched he tenses up a bit. Like we said... it's more him than her. Because that barcode shows what he is. And if anyone can read barcodes then they'd be able to get the number 331845739493.

"Was made by Manticore. A soldier." He states then shakes his head. "Genetically engineered super soldier with feline DNA." A frown crosses his lips and he gives a small growl, frustrated with himself. "Got a big brother... baby sister. Big family."

It's a bit jumbled and not the whole story. She'd probably have to get a bit specific. If only because he's not one to really talk about himself.

[wheatencrown]

She hugs him quite tightly,

"Shh, no need to speak more of it."

Created for death and war, that makes her so angry but she won't show it to him. A nearby tree shakes in an unseen wind as she commits that name to memory, Manticore.

[thebrokensoldier]

He's not really used to hugs. Those are... foreign to him just like a lot of other things. Then again he's not an Ordinary. But instead of pulling away he just leans into the goddess.

For now he's a content kitten. The tremors have close to faded. So he'll be fine and she's there. He's safe. It's what mattered.

[wheatencrown]

She holds him for a time and soon he sleeps.

The night is quiet and for once the house doesn't seem too large and the wait for her Kore isn't as long.

When he wishes to return to the Bar, the door will be there but for now, he's held in a mother's arms.