Redsand Canyon Tether

Ruenna trailed her husband almost wearily as he led her to yet another charity case. Rue had not expected Germanicus to present her with so many lost-cause women right off the bat, but then again, was this not the manifestation of the very argument that Ruenna had originally made for the presence of civilian infrastructure? Hadn't she told Germanicus that there would be a need for a sanctuary as well as a barracks, in a military outpost? 

"Does she understand Common?" Ruenna asked, her honey eyes landing on the diminutive woman. Perhaps she was deaf. Hello, are you okay? Ruenna signed in ptero, wondering if the sign language she had learned from the Redhawks could be of use here. 

She had removed her bandage. Oh, stars.. was she simple, as well as dumb? What was Ruenna going to do with her? While a soldier might be convinced to take a dumb woman as a wife (many of the soldiers seemed to prefer silence to chatter, anyway) it seemed unlikely that a simple woman could be of any use to a husband.