Idle paws

He offered his insight and Briar almost didn’t believe him at first, but then she sought his help once he was feeling better. Her optimism helped his heart, but his mind had been made up since he started coughing up mushroom spores that his time was limited now. He’d humor her though, maybe if he started to believe differently to how he felt he’d really find himself recovering. Hika wasn’t so sure of that.

"Of course, Briar.” He tried to be convincing, and sound as sure as she did that one day in the near future he’d come to her, healed, to mend nets at her side. For now, Hikaru continued on the bracelet he was working on, awkwardly tying knots and adding shells and beads before it began to look like a finished product. He carefully weaved the twince around and through the beads until it finally came together as a piece of jewelry. The shells were fashioned as the centerpieces, carefully tied into place with smaller beads to accent them. The dark twince almost resembling the color of dark ocean and waves against the beads and shell.

"Do you think Mortis will like it?” Hikaru asked softly as he lifted the piece for Briar to inspect, right before he fell into another coughing fit.

"Speech"