last lovely smile

Deluge rolled her eyes as the boy bounded forwards, sure she wouldn’t be against finding another statue but she wasn’t sure it was a safe place to take a tiny baby (maybe it was just his demure size that had her so concerned?) But she was ripped from her thoughts as his yelp broke the quiet atmosphere. The girl’s heart leapt into her throat, Fuck! Sparrow was going to kill her!

She raced forward, skidding to a halt, expecting that maybe a big snake had jumped out of the bush and bitten him on the nose, but did snakes even come out when it was this unseasonally cold? Golden eyes searched frantically for the culprit only to fall on a thorny bush of glossy ripe blackberries. Her head canted, all the other bushes she had come across so far still had green fruit, and she didn’t trust that she wasn’t confused and that these might actually be some sort of poisonous cousin she just wasn’t skilled enough to differentiate. "We should really head back an’ ge’ tha’ looked at," She motioned to his nose, there was nothing outwardly wrong with it, but she was no healer and was sure it’d start to throb before long. Carefully, she reached out to brake off a branch that carried some berries, she’d take it back to her mumma to look at and see if it was anything dangerous.

He was really looking sorry for himself, so she lowered her shoulder and mumbled around the stick in her mouth, its thorns digging uncomfortably into her lips. "Climb up if ya’wanna, prob’ly quicker this way." She’d make sure to dump him before they got close enough for anyone to see. "Jus’ don’yerdare breathe a word o’ it ter anyone!"