Tea too hot to spill

Okay so maybe he wasn't resting as much as he was telling himself he was. He had decided to go poke at the ground at night. But in his defence he had tried sleeping. His mind was just a little too busy for that right now it seemed. Crux saw his sister coming, even gave her a little smile and his tail brushed the ground, what he didn't see coming was the way she barrelled down on him and for a split second Crux felt how much smaller than her he was. Then he was grimacing as her paw brushed still quite sensitive flesh. "Ow-uh!" Crux said, gently pushing Kite's paw off of his throat. "I decided to take a lava bath." He said it sarcastically, it wasn't like he'd meant to not make the jump. "Remember when we were kids, the statues and familiars and stuff?" Y'know when mom died. He knew he didn't need to add that. "It was something kinda like that, I honestly don't have a better answer for you. One moment I was in the forest and the next I was trying to get across a river of Lava." It was a more condensed version of the story as he'd explained it to Triss and his father but he honestly didn't want to have to keep repeating the whole thing.

"I'm fine, there's been no sign of infection yet and I can handle a little pain." Crux understood she was just worried for him, but he still felt the need to push back a little, maybe it was just the feeling of not wanting to be babied just for his leg but superimposed over his newest problem. "Besides I heard girls like a man with scars." Honestly a joke he could only make around his siblings, he'd barely managed to tentatively flirt with Triss after he'd had a near death experience there was no way he could ever make a joke so bold with anyone else yet. He was also admittedly trying to brush past the topic.

"Speech" "Riya"