It was a normal sunshiney day for Hyacinth, she had checked up on the sick male she had brought back and made sure her herbs were in stock. She had an abundance of energy to use up, so she went out to hunt. She found a gopher nosing around and digging at the ground and crept ever so slowly forward, eyes fastened on the critter's fat haunches as it wiggled back and forth. It seemed to be going well until there was a scream. The scream caused the gopher to shriek and Hyacinth to jump five feet in the air, recognising it as a child and running off immediately.
She came upon the slope and stared down in shock for a moment at Wisp before carefully sliding down the hill and stopping in front of Wisp. "Hey Doll, you're okay. Can I pick you up?" she asked. She needed to get her back up the hill to properly check her out.
Shit. Hyacinth's blue eyes quickly scanned over the wailing pup,noticing the way her limb was held up against her body limply. That spoke of a sprained or fractured bone. The level of panic the child was in meant Hyacinth couldn't risk picking her up and moving her, for fear that she would freak out even more and possibly drop her as a result. So the next option was for Hyacinth to try and calm the child and treat her like a patient in shock which the poor baby probably was.
Slowly she slid down onto heher belly and ever so Gingerly pulled Wisp into her chest, careful not to bump or jostle the injured limb. Then she began to lick the pup's fur in long, slow, rhythmic motions from the top of her head down to the base of her spine. After about two minutes of that she began to hum and sing between licks
"you are my sunshine
my only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away"
She then continued to hum, trying to keep an aur of calmness herself as she knew panicking wouldn't help.
Inside her head was a tirade of panicked curses and very unladylike things but outwardly when the small girl pushed her away she simply looked surprised and mortified that what she had done was wrong.
Maybe I'm not meant to be a healer she thought. Every time she seemed to try and help out she messed up somehow and it wasn't even like she was a young girl who had an excuse to be so dumb.
Seeing that something she did had calmed Wisp down at least a little bit, she took the opportunity and gripped the back of her scruff. Quickly but carefully so she didn't jostle the pup around too much, she scampered up the hill and onto stable ground. She then set Wisp down and sent up a call for
@Rannoch or
@Seabreeze, or just someone who had puppy experience and could help her calm the poor baby down.
"My name is Hyacinth, my momma named me after a really pretty flower. See my eyes?" she crouched down, widening her pretty purple- blue eyes so that the child could gaze into them. She hoped that maybe distracting the little one would further calm her down.
"That's the color of the flower i was named for. Your daddy is a friend of mine, he's had me check on you since you were a teeny little thing" she said stretching the truth just a bit. She wouldn't say Rannoch was a friend exactly quite yet but he did seem to like her and she liked him. As for the check ups, that was fairly true. She had been over to check on Wisp and her siblings ever since they were born.