Noctisardor Bypass gobsmacked, don’t hesitate to maybe overcompensate

she'd dawdled too long, thinking of who could go. glaukos would have been best, but heda would have been faster.
and now! and now!
scarcely hearing their words, heda moved into view, alongside her sister, and looked gratefully at the young healer.
"please stay," heda heard herself ask in a tone that almost pleaded. "druid is — was — getting sicker. she needs — she needs someone always here who's skilled with medicine."
she had no right to beg him from the hollow. he had poured his ability into ava, and now heda asked him to do it again, for druid this time. "please. you can — there's an old pharmacy here. it might have things so you don't have to go so far."