walking a mile starts with the first step

Deep sapphire eyes flicked from the large, vibrant boy to the girl, catching the expression. He had to wonder if this was the sister Lia had mentioned. To her snark, he simply ignored her, though the side of his face she couldn’t see held a faint twitch of a smile before that subtle expression bloomed back into that easy-natured smile as he studied Indigo.

This was nice. He had wanted to be useful in some way while he was healing here before he went home, and this was clearly an opportunity to be a patient for a young, aspiring healer. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Indigo. I’m Cairo. I’m feeling alright, no pain unless I push my luck too far. Only happens when I twist my torso too much, and my legs definitely aren’t ready to bear weight. But soon, I think, though I’m no healer.”

His ears perked, eyes bright as he waited for the next questions, and to see what Indigo was willing to try with his patient.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think