i met you in the dark

Segin stopped in his tracks when a voice from behind him told him no and insisted that he wouldn’t make him go back out in the rain. He hesitated there at the edge of the cave, glancing back over his shoulder at the large man. He spotted the herbs that were spread out in front of him just before he began to move them aside, sparking a bit of curiosity. The only wolf he had ever known to have that kind of stature was his father and he had certainly not been a healer of any sort. Seeing someone as naturally imposing as this stranger was with his long, saber fangs and mane that made him seem larger than life Segin never would have assumed him to be the sort that would take to healing.

Perhaps that was why he needed to stop judging things by his first impressions. He finally convinced himself to turn back toward the other violet hued man, lingering by the entrance for another uncertain moment before he finally took a few steps closer. “Thank you,” he said simply in response before finding a spot a couple of feet away and settling onto his stomach with a sigh. He turned one of his paws over to look at it with a flick of his ears. Any attempt he had made to seal up the raw skin was now gone thanks to the rain pouring down around them. Ah well, it had been an attempt.

As he laid there with his fur dripping water off of him onto the moss beneath him a little shiver ran through him and he attempted to curl in on himself a bit while still eyeing the herbs his new acquaintance had been sorting moments before. “Are you a healer?” he asked quietly, as if it wasn’t obvious, as he brought his silver gaze back up to the bright aqua eyes of the other man. He had been one of the very few of his siblings that had taken any interest in the craft - one of them being his brother who was now dead. The thought crossing his mind made him shiver again, but not because of the cold seeping into his bones.