purple diamond in the rough

Duchess · 05-16-2021, 06:30 PM

Duchess still wouldn’t notice any shift in the girl’s internal emotions, she already seemed like a big ball of nerves so her being scared of Duchess went over her head. She tucked the girl’s name into her files, it wouldn’t be hard to remember her name with so few wolves she knew from The Hallows.

Duchess kept her attention on the fragile girl while Indigo explained. She wouldn’t get baffled over what the backstory seemed to unfold, Duchess easily kept herself calm in times like these but mainly by not letting her emotions get in the way. She would have plenty of time later to let the explanation settle in, for now she couldn’t imagine the harm that came to this girl even if it was just the neglect of a father.

“We’ll meet you in the main hall.” She told Indigo before moving herself forward, making sure Gypsy was staying along beside her, “Okay Gypsy, I’m going to take you to a room with a few baths. It’s not too far.” She was sure that keeping up with herself was much easier than keeping up with Indigo.

She would lead Gypsy a round a few corners through the corridors, luckily the room they were going to was on the same floor as Indigo’s den. A fire was set on the opposite corner of the entrance to keep the water inside the half stone walls warm. Not many used the baths here, they were too tedious to take care of. But Duchess was willing to go through the extra work to get the girl a warm bath and get her clean and comfortable before having her meal, and then maybe staying with Indigo and the rest of his outcasts.

She led her up the few stairs before the small pool, “Just let me get in real quick and I’ll help you in.” She carefully put herself into the bath and reached out to Gypsy’s paw outside, pulling gently to gesture her inside. There wasn’t enough water for the girl to accidentally drown, these baths weren’t fit for a wolf Indigo’s size. But she was sure the girl wouldn’t like not feeling the ground under her so Duchess would offer her own body to let her use if that made her more comfortable.

While she was mostly careless to the horrors Gypsy had faced in her life, she was much more gentle while she used her paws to pour the bath water around her shoulders and back, rubbing carefully to not let her feel too threatened. Blind, with a stranger, in a bath. It wasn’t a thought that Duchess really dwelled on, but she wouldn’t blame the girl if she didn’t feel safe with her overall situation.

When they finished, Duchess helped lift her out of the bath, draping a pelt over her before leading her to the main hall where Indigo would be waiting. She forgot a pelt for herself, she clearly wasn’t thinking about herself. The main obstacle they would have was going down the one flight of steps before the main hall.

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