I be Trippin' (Ebony)
09-20-2014, 12:06 PM
Kassander hadn't known that his sister was wishing for a healer. He hadn't know there was an intruder, or that Val had found him. He had been more concerned with filling his growing herbal stores almost obsessively, gathering the soggy, storm-lashed herbs and drying them out in one of several caches he had been filling. The rain had already ruined more than one cache with molding, but he was determined that when fall came and killed the growing things, Ebony's healers would still have enough herbs to treat illness and injury through the winter without anyone suffering for it. He might not be a fully trained healer yet, but he had spent most of his life obsessing over memorizing healing herbs and their uses so he had them down cold. It was his own experience he was nervous about - what herbs were the most important for winter? What ones were gone through fastest? What diseases were the most likely? He didn't know, but the idea of asking Maximous - who had treated Val so much like a child when Katja turned the pack over to her, who had in that single harsh conversation betrayed Kass' trust of his judgement and hurt his easily-bruised feelings - what his own experience told him was simply impossible for the young Xanilov. He just couldn't bring himself to do it. And Adelaide had just vanished, Kass hadn't even seen her since he'd returned from Olympus. He hadn't even met any of the new wolves who'd appeared from Old Ebony... the shy introvert hadn't been able to bring himself to approach one yet, though he knew as Val's brother he really should... so he didn't know if there were other healers among them. So, he'd been simply stuffing his hoards to the gills with all the healing herbs he could in the hopes that it would be enough. That's what he was out doing when he spotted Val with another stranger, and Kass changed his course to meet them. With Val around he felt more capable, anxious to show her that he wasn't useless, so his stance was straighter rather than curled in on itself as it had been since his return. As he approached though it was clear something wasn't right. The stranger wasn't quite emaciated, but certainly approaching thin, and he was lying prone and helplessly before Val. More telling, Val looked concerned. Really, really concerned. "Val?" he asked softly as he came up on them, then to both Val and the stranger added, "Is something wrong?" That was the first thing, to establish if anyone was hurt or unwell. The stranger sure didn't look quite right, but... |
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