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Toes scrape across the floor where her feet swing in the chair beside her brother's bed. Harwin's been asleep for days, and the Maester swears that he is alright, that as long as he continues to cough up the thick, sticky black, it means that he will heal and not choke on it.
Ravens have been sent. To Larys. To the small council. She does not know if they've heard back yet - the Maester tells her, when she asks in her very best Lady's voice - that a raven to king's landing takes time to get there and return, but he promises to inform her as soon as they hear back.
Uncle Simon approves of her help, giving her things to do when she does not sit with Harwin. She sends a raven to the Princess Rhaenyra on her own with the Maester's help. Harwin is fond of her, her sworn shield, or at least, he once was. Even if the Queen does not like her very much, and they all say mean things about one another.
The raven has not returned from Dragonstone either.
They found Papa the day before. Uncle Simon did not let her see, but held her when she cried. Still, Harwin slept, and they said they'd wait to send him on the boat because it was Harwin's duty to launch the arrow for the funeral, she insisted, coughing up her own black stickiness but it was not nearly as bad.
So now she sits, still by her brother's bed, praying to the Old Gods and the Seven to please let him wake up. Wake up and be her brother, and to not leave too. To not let the fire claim him. When he jerks upon the bed, gasping and coughing as he looks around, Abrogail jerks out of her own chair, reaching for his arm before stopping herself. She was not to touch - his arms were bandaged as he was inured.
"Harwin?" she asks, in a shaky voice that carries, for she hears Uncle Simon out in the hall, ordering the guards to retrieve the maester. She clears her throat, remembers that she must be the Lady now, and be calm, even when she just wants to throw herself back in his arms. "You're alright now, they're getting the Maester. They said you breathed in too much smoke and hurt yourself."