Horizon Ridge For the Heart

"It's flank, actually," Pump corrected him, while regarding the newcomer with a critical eye. First impressions could always be wrong - therefore she was not going to trust him just because he had shown interest in her well-being. She had to get to know him in the beginning and then he would have to prove his worth. But given his noteworthy size and the fact that out of them all he was healthy and not traumatized in any way - he already had good check-points in his list.

"Thistle has got it covered," she replied. It had not been easy for her to admit that her wound needed to be tended for, mostly because she was too proud to ask for help. Yet the lithe healer had managed to convince her. "I didn't have a chance to ask much, when we met the other day," she went straight to the business. "If you are here to stay, I would like to know everything I should know about you."