She appears above a bit of frozen wasteland. She falls, conscious but without making a peep, to the ground, and breaks a few more bones.
She lies there.
She appears above a bit of frozen wasteland. She falls, conscious but without making a peep, to the ground, and breaks a few more bones.
She lies there.
Moondance leads her to another grown-from-trees type dwelling, where a woman is resting with her leg in a splint. "The bone is half-healed," he tells her, "but our Healers cannot do the rest today, can you...?"
"Yes, it'll take me a few minutes again." She looks at the woman just like she did with Lightning.
"There are two more people with less serious injuries, if you are willing to heal them as well. I would understand if you were tired though."
Moondance says nothing to that, just points her to another courtyard, where two young men are sitting in bowl-shaped chairs woven of living tree branches, feet dipped into a steaming pool of hot water. One has a broken arm splinted, the other appears to have a broken collarbone and has his arm in a sling.
They watch her back with obvious curiosity, and then shyly introduce themselves as Tree and ("hey, I wanted Tree") Moss.
"How does the healing you're going to do to us work?" Moss says, elbowing Tree when Tree tries to interrupt him in the middle. "- shut up, sorry, he's my brother and he's annoying."
"Hey."
"You are."
The brothers make slightly awkward small talk with her, asking polite questions about Fairyland while she does her staring.
At some point a large white horse wanders up and nudges her way in beside Woodlark, staring at Promise with piercing blue eyes that hold obvious intelligence. And a hint of hostility.
Animals haven't gotten less creepy. She's not sure it's better if this is a person-animal. She heals the brothers.
Woodlark is still watching her, eyes narrowed slightly; he seems off-balance more than anything else.
"I think so, unless you have something to say. Can I get a Gate back? I wouldn't be sure of finding my way if I had to fly the whole distance."
"I don't know that I've got anything to say." Woodlark shuffles his feet a little. "I - want to know what's going on. More of what's going on, I mean. You told me what happened but I'm still in the dark about what's going to happen next. But if you don't consider it my business then I guess that's fair enough."