can i offer you an egg in this trying time?
Poison Master
Scout
01-07-2022, 08:38 PM
_________________________________________________________________ She hadn't been the only one with troubles during the Long Night. Unlike her own sickness where she had succumbed to the crystals, others had succumbed to their own mind. Some even had mushrooms sprouting from their body. What a time that had been. Being the caring and curious type, Audra wandered from the borders in search of someone to help. Maybe someone would cross her path that needed someone like her to talk to. Maybe they wouldn't and she would have to be okay with that. Ultimately, she still had her own gripes with that mysterious cloaked figure to deal with, but that would be for another time. Feeling the grass beneath her paws and the air rustling through her fur, she felt alive for the first time in ages. Breathing in deeply, her good eye looked up to the canopy of willow trees. Life was teeming all around her and that she was grateful for. The Long Night had made her feel as if the sun would never rise again. Darkness had surrounded them, attempting to suffocate and take them all to Somnium. Thankfully, most had made it out alive, some worse than others. Stopping occasionally to pick at a few leaves to stuff into her satchel, she hummed quietly under her breath as she usually did. Wandering deeper into the forest, she barely noticed when the sunlight stopped filtering through the treetop. Silence hung over the space as if someone were waiting with bated breath. Los in thought about how badly she wished to help others, Audra almost didn't notice she wasn't alone. It was when a quiet snap of a twig made her ears turn did she stop to look. Off in the distance, mingling with the shadows, a familiar girl with an awfully large Robin beside her stood. Or maybe sat, she wasn't sure from this distance. Thankful that it would be someone she knew, Audra approached with an unusual amount of confidence than she normally had. Keeping her paws quiet, she allowed herself to eavesdrop just a tad on what the girl was saying to the ball of feathers. From what she could make out, it sounded as if Ophie too was having issues from the Long Night. Something about being tired and wanting to help. Just like her. That tidbit made Audra smile gently as she approached Ophie with a light chuffing noise to alert the other girl was there. From their last encounter, Audra had made note that the girl did want to heal, but hadn't taken to the herbs and such as she had. That was all fine since there was more than one way to be a healer. "I didn't mean to overhear but sounds like you're having some troubles," her sweet tune reaches out through the shade as she eyes the robin curiously. Unsure how to feel about such a large bird that should be tiny, Audra redirected her attention toward Ophie. "Honestly, the Long Night, oozening, plague, whatever you want to call it, really did a number on me. As you can tell," Audra turns her chin toward the left to show off her ominously appearing dead eye that sat blackened in its socket. "I just, uh," her voice pauses as her paws scratch at the muddy dirt beneath them. "Haven't really said anything to anyone about it," Audra's tone drops to a whisper now. Why she was suddenly confessing everything to this girl but it was relieving. As if a weight lifted off her chest, she straightened her gaze to look more at Ophie with her good eye. "If you'll listen, I would love to talk. And if you, uh n-need to ta-talk too, I c-can listen," the stutter returned as she took a step back. Realizing that she may have been a bit forward with her words, her body trembles. WORD COUNT: 947/1500 _________________________________________________________________ A U D R A
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audra's companions are to be assumed next to her unless stated otherwise