A strange wheezing sound reached Crux and he lifted his head, tongue swiping up the last drops of the water on his lips, he narrowed his eyes and turned his head towards the sound. It took what felt like a lifetime to grasp what he was looking at, a form stopped behind him her body heaving in a way he hadn't seen before, the noise coming from her as she seemed to struggle to... Breathe. Oh gods! What felt like a lifetime had really only been a second or two, almost immediately as he realized what he was looking at Crux was loping towards her, his legs protesting and his gait awkward as he pushed himself to get to her as quickly as his leg would let him.
She was so tiny! He could hear her trying unsuccessfully to fill her lungs. For a flash his entire brain felt like it had emptied out. What had he learned? Then it seemed to snap into place. "I'm a healer, I can help." He said by way of explaining what he was about to do. "Don't lean over yourself, sit down but sit up straight you need to not compress your air way." He instructed firmly but kindly. "Try to calm down if you can, focus on the rhythm of your breathing, in through the nose, out through the mouth." He lifted a paw as he inhaled exaggeratedly, lowering it as he exhaled hoping it'd help her to stop her clear panic and get her to focus on her breathing. He cast his gaze around, silently cursing that he didn't have anything on him to help, tea leaves were still new to him but he knew cold was bad for difficult breathing.
She was so tiny. He looked at her. "Just nod or shake your head. Can I touch you?" He could pretty easily warm her body with his own body heat if he had to, but he wasn't about to grab a total stranger and hold them against their will, if anything was going to make her panic more that would be it.
