Back to the Place Where I Belong

She knew Artorias would be upset by the news and understandably so. She knew he and Rudyard had always been close and even if they hadn't been all that close it was still news that was hard to hear about a sibling. When he asked about Rudy pulling through, insisting that he had to and that was why he had such a thick skull she wanted to be positive and reassure him that he would, but it was hard. She didn't want to lie to him, but she really didn't know what the future would hold at this point. "They seem confident that he will," she finally settled on even if she wasn't a hundred percent convinced herself. It wasn't a reality that she was willing to face, but as the days ticked by with him still locked deep in an endless sleep it began to feel more and more hopeless.

She nodded when he insisted that he would need to see Rudyard. She wasn't going to fight him on that and had already expected for Artorias to go see his brother in the infirmary, she just hadn't wanted him to feel like he needed to sprint off to see him immediately since there was nothing that he could do right in that moment. When he brought up Gwynevere, saying how he needed to go ask her some questions, her expression darkened slightly, her ears folding back again as he asked if there was anything else. "There's one other thing... It's about Gwyn," she said quietly. "Gwyn was attacked by a man while she was out of the pack lands collecting herbs... Nothing sexual, thank goodness, but he gave her a pretty bad bite on her back leg and shook her up pretty badly. She refused to give me any details about it. From what Ulric told me she did give him a basic physical description, but that's it. Ulric and Ezra went searching for the man and didn't have any luck." She sighed, her jaw tightening. "Will you talk to her about it, Art? She won't tell me anything about the man that did this or what he did to her, but she hasn't been herself since then and hasn't been doing well since it happened."

Tamsyn Carpathius