Blacktail Deer Plateau sick love is my modern cliche

he leaned slightly against her, grateful for the support but not wanting to bowl the girl over; he was still quite larger than she was. aditya was glad that the air between them had cleared, if only for now, and smiled, ducking his head away just in time to let out another explosive cough.

"i want to hear about you," adi responded, after he'd expelled whatever mucus had built up in his throat in the past, oh, two minutes or so. "i hardly ever see you. i want to know what sort of adventures you've been on."

there was no way easy hadn't gotten herself into some trouble in the past few moons. hell, she had been out and about since before aditya had arrived on the plateau! he realized, with a small pang, that he didn't know his sister-in-law very well at all.