Somewhere to belong

He aims his gaze at the flames while Lia works. He was wrestling with an earthquake within him. Eltrys measures his own breaths into the fire with effort, bringing his focus back to his center. He can hear the coughs and her desperate drinking, but he recognizes he cannot get lost in this agony when he has literally done all he can for now.

He is measured and back to himself when Lia comes around the fire to speak to him. He brings his attention to the autumnal fae. Keep her fluids up, drink the tea daily, meat broth, and eucalyptus smoke. He can at least get Alexa to keep up the regimen and stay with Haydee when he needs to attend to his new duties. He nods, understanding the regimen. He moves to Haydee then, and noses her cheek.

"You can rest now, Dee. You need to get better so I can tell you good news." He murmurs lowly next to her ear. He offers a chaste kiss on her cheek. His heart threatened to turmoil but he reigned it in as he came back to focus on Lia. She was offering her connections in other places to get more herbs. He had a feeling one of those places would be the high castle on the ridge. He had been developing his own relations with them for a while, but the way the Lord had spoken to him previously during the last crisis when they asked for aid, left a sour taste in his mouth.

"We have two neighbors I've been slowly developing connections with already. Come, let's let her rest as well as she can and we can talk."

He goes to lead Lia out but again bends down to Haydee and murmurs to her that he will return very soon and to just sleep and rest for now. Then nods to the battle healer out of the den and onto the frigid green.

"I had not predicted that my first few days of leading would be so..." He didn't have the words, he didn't know if it would be right to have the words as he gave her crucial information about the status of his rank. Tighter lips, Eltrys, don't sink your own ship before you got the sales unfurled.

"You're arrival could not have come at a better time, Lia. So tell me, you didn't come to the...my... borders because you knew I needed you. Before we speak more on herbal supplies and the next steps... You've saved my life, nigh twice now, and your efforts to save Haydee are considerable on a monumentous scale. What can I do for you?" He asked earnestly, leading her to the common area between the falls and the creek.


((Thank you Hermes!))


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