Shadow Mountain Wire

i'm being medicated did not quite have the ring that lestan wanted to convey. "one of the healers, and leaders, arlette, she's as-asked me to find some lavender on excursion." shy tendrils of wonder creeping his face. "i was in the garden. and i was j-just heading out, actually."
toeing the footholds of the round mountain, the mayfair picked his way up to help close the distance between them. once there, wake's eyes recaptured him anew, sending a glissade of —
difficult to think about? because of him?
"did you l-learn anything?" lestan murmured in question, trying not to seem overeager as well as properly enthused and not too distant, a balancing act which quickly drummed up the start of a headache.