Steady Blaze [Pack Meeting]

Summer was the season for harvesting most herbs, and Viviane kept quietly occupied doing so, and preparing the various tinctures, salves, and teas of her trade. Valhalla had been experiencing a period of quiet health and wellness, but she had been traumatized by the experiences of the Long Night and the illness that had taken someone in front of her, and taken both Justice and Domari's lives while she had been away. All her knowledge and all her skill had been for nothing in that time. It wasn't an experience she was eager to repeat, so she obsessively buried herself into preparing the medicines for others to use. It helped that she was no longer the only trained healer as it had been when Paladin was so ill and passed. She could hide behind her growing apothecary while the nomad and her daughter represented healers to the pack. She had, in fact, been deeply involved in mixing up a salve when she heard Ardyn's call, and the beeswax had already been heated and partly mixed in. Rather than potentially ruin this batch, she took the time to finish it up and transfer it to the jar it needed to be in and seal it with more wax before she cleaned herself up and moved to join the meeting. She still smelled of beeswax and honey, and the herbs she'd mixed into it, but she was presentable. Cairo and Caelia were both already there, of course, and though she smiled at them she didn't move to join them, instead letting her smile fade as she settled herself towards the back of the group alone.