For a Feather

She huffed softly at his response, and knew this would not do at all. “I come from a pack of healers, I can make the pain go away” she offered. It was the least she could do, after she had just about split his ear open. He tried to send her away, with pain of violence - but she had already kicked his ass in battle, abided accidentally. She didn’t think he would want another round quiet so quickly, especially well he was in pain.

Instead she ignored his grumbling and snarling and went about harvesting some Meadowsweet - it was already pretty common, and she found a patch growing beneath the trees. She had barely needed to look. It had been commonly used back home, and it reminded of her mother so strongly it almost toppled her. Trying to hide the pain of her loss, she turned back to the boy. “This will get rid of the pain, do you want that?”