in the crystalline knowledge of you

Avantika didn't take her serious eyes off of Audra for any fraction of a moment when she drank the potion. Her cheeks bulged suddenly, and Avantika only managed to take a few quick steps back before the other girl vomited up what looked like everything in her stomach. She had to look away then, for the sake of her own belly, but she glanced back up, pretty sure that the vomiting was actually not as terrible as the worst scenarios she had imagined. Audra was alive, at least.

Eventually, she got up, laughing a little and teasing, which Avantika responded to with a weak smile of 'God, girl, I'm so goddamn glad you're okay'. After the fear retreated slightly, she'd be angry at that firefly guy. Who did he think he was, selling poisons without even telling them what it was? But for now, her heart was racing too quickly for that. She was just scared and relieved.

"I--I don't know," she replied to the question of nearby water, still shaken up. She thought for a moment more. "I think there's a river not too far east of here." She'd go with Audra, wherever she needed her.

"Speech"