Catching up

Rudy hadn’t intended to startle her.  Even as he kept his roguish smile on his face he felt a tickle of concern in the back of his mind at the fear he saw run over her.  This was a place of healing and that meant some that came needed it in ways that weren’t necessarily physical.  Rudy didn’t know a damn thing about how to heal the body.  He should for all the many times he’d needed his sister to tend to him but the healing he could do was in one’s heart and soul.  At least as much as the injured party would allow.

“My lord?” Rudy tossed over the title as if testing it, “Wow, that’s pretty nice.  I could like that,” Rudyard’s grin grew but there was playfulness tinged in it. “Well Lia, I do so love the title ‘Lord’ buuuut it probably wouldn’t work that well.” Rudyard let out a strained sigh, “See, I want everyone comfortable with me, and if I started prancing around with someone calling me ‘lord’ it would be hard.”

Rudy quirked a brow at her, “How about you just call me Rudy so that no one else feels too nervous about me, and I call you Lia cause it’s shorter and I can remember it better?”  He looked about at the surroundings then back at her, “Safe to assume you’re a healer?  Or studying to become one maybe?”  Healers and plants went together like fish and water or Rudy and sleeping in.

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