who: @shewolfaurea where: Aurea's private rooms, how scandalous when: after the fight with the Arishok notes: surprise starter for the coml
It had been difficult to gain access to Aurea’s rooms directly after the battle against the Arishok. Seris couldn’t lie her way in, not directly at least. But half-truths and presenting herself as if she were delivering some vital resource requested of her seemed to afford her the ability to slip through several doors flanked by cagey, worried wolves. Stating the truth with a tone of self-importance seemed to work. I have needles for suturing, I have clean bandages, my canteen is filled with purified water. All of this she could say. These were all truths, and she held her breath hoping no one would question if she was summoned to deliver such items–mercifully no one did. If they had, she would state she was a healer; again, a truth that could pass her lips, just not one pertinent to the context at hand.
For a moment, she was juvenile again, mapping out looping truths and burying leads to pursue what excited her. For a moment, the mantle of grief she wore was a light.
But she managed entry to Aurea’s room where a more skilled healer had completed their work mending the alpha queen just as they were packing their vials and tinctures back into their healing kit. Seriswyn knew she would not go unnoticed by Aurea, even with so much else that must have been on the queen’s mind, but she attempted to fade into the wallpaper until the healer finished their instructions on Aurea’s longer term care and left the room. Aurea was more than capable of taking care of herself, but Seriswyn committed the instructions to memory nonetheless.
And suddenly, they were alone and an embarrassment gripped Seris’ heart tightly. What was she doing here? Why did she presume she was wanted? How long could she stare at Aurea in silence as if viewing her through a fishbowl before the quiet would be too much? “I’m sorry–I shouldn’t have,” she stammered. “This was intrusive, I was just–I worried. I’ll go.”











