Maybe we could get down now

Her lovely Athena laughed, which drew her blue eyes up from her rump up towards her face. Head tilted to the side as she listened to her words. As she began to understand her mouth opened to form an 'o' shape. It was kind of cool, now that she knew that it wasn't a strange scar or something. Letting out a breath she stood up to full height, relaxing a little bit more. She was going to relax into her side, but remembered that she was quite smelly at the moment. The lovely silver woman came over and started to clean her up, rubbing snow into her pelt. It not only cleaned the bile and blood off of her put soothed her aching muscles. A content sigh slipped out of her maw, she wasn't used to being taken care of. Perhaps that was one of the biggest downfalls of being a healer, she was so used to taking care of others and getting nothing in return. Not that she minded really, Amalia loved to help out.

Once her coat was all clean she leaned forward and nuzzled into Athena's cheek, greedily drinking in her scent. They had been away from each other for so long, and she hated it. "I've missed you," she whispered softly, trying to close the distance between them so that they were standing chest to chest. A flush grew hot under her red cheeks, bashfully she blinked her long lashes at the taller woman, picking up her left front paw and aiming to draw it up and down Athena's own left foreleg. A soft rumble sounded in her chest, her head pushing its way under her chin. For the longest time she had been apart from her love, she had been so content on finding her husband. Ears pulled back against her skull as she tried to push away the thoughts, wanting to instead focus on this rare moment alone with her mate. Usually there was a kid or two between them. She loved those little buggers with all of her heart, but it was nice to have a bit of alone time once in awhile.

Athena had asked what had happened, and ever so slowly she pulled her head away. She couldn't very well ignore the question, but it erased the smile from her maw. "Arietta was poisoned," she whispered, a bit of fear tainting her usual sing-song voice. "I had to purge it from her system... but I don't know where she got it from," she wasn't even sure if Arietta herself knew where it came from.