Phoenix Maplewood Who do you think you are

since keen's inactive at the time i'm editing this & there's been no replies for over a month now, i took the liberty of editing in a small, vague conclusion and archiving this.

the woman affirms that she will help and relief washes over wintersbane, visible for a few moments in the planes of his face. keen's injuries are bad, worse than tywyll's had been, he thinks. he'd done an ok job patching the redhawk boy up but his first advice to him had been to seek a professional healer. wintersbane knew enough to patch up, to stave off infection and prevent blood loss until a proper medic could be found to treat the wounds — staple knowledge that any warrior should have in his personal opinion.

derg offers to help and the stranger takes the lead in their situation — and the sotaherra defers to her. wintersbane's not in the habit of being told what to do these days but she's the healer and if it saves keen's life then that's all that matters. wintersbane shoots derg a do as she says look with a nod to take the healer's words as if they came from his own mouth; though he doubts the earthen colored male needed much convincing to do as he was told even if the order came from a loner. not with keen's life in peril.

wintersbane follows after the healer, repeating what she'd told him about yarrow in his head as they walk. fern-like plant. delicate. white flowers. aromatic scent. thank you, wintersbane offers when she looks back to ensure that he is, indeed, following her. the vartija is in your debt. the vartija could use a healer like her but given the circumstance and the fact that it felt ill-mannered to attempt to recruit when keen's life was on the line he doesn't make the attempt. keen and getting her to a more stable condition was his first priority.

they find the flowers they're looking for and make their way back to the injured girl post haste and began treating her wounds. when they are finished wintersbane isn't very confident she'll survive but only time would ultimately tell. for now, he thanks the woman once more and suggests that he and derg stay with keen until she is well enough to move. only then did they make their slow attempt back to permafrost hollows.