Tyla managed to get a now-unresisting Sky to her home, which was basically a small, hollow hill. It was then she noticed that Sky was injured. He looked as though he'd fought his way through a whole -ha- mob of mobs, and hadn't been winning the whole time.
Tyla realized she should try to treat his wounds, but… Tyla was undergoing a bit of an internal struggle. This was the guy who had tried to kill her friends, but he seemed so much like a little kid that it was hard to hate him.
Reluctantly letting her instinctive protectiveness win, Tyla got out some bandages and some potion that would help speed healing of his cuts. Sky was talking happily; "This place is so cool! Squids can't get here- hey can we sleep or something so morning comes faster? The longer we stay in here, the more time they get to plan against us, and that's bad, right? Hey, what kind of sword do you use? It had better be a budder one-"
"Say what? Butter?" Tyla stared at Sky. He held up his sword. "Budder!" Tyla took a moment to process that in Sky's mind, 'gold' meant 'budder', then she got him to sit down and take his jacket off. The jacket was reasonably clean, but his t-shirt was covered in soot and burn marks on one side, and it was torn in several places. Shaking her head at the impossibility of that, Tyla put some of the potion on Sky's cuts.
Sky chattered happily about killing squids, and Tyla reflected that by the end of the night, she would either be deaf, or she would have strangled Sky. Tyla did all she could for the injuries on Sky's arms, then she told him to take his shirt off. If it had been any other boy, she would have felt extremely awkward, but somehow, with Sky, she didn't. She decided that it was probably because Sky seemed so young -seriously, his mind seemed about four- and continued with her work.
Eventually, she was done, and she managed to get Sky to go to bed. He curled up under the default-red sheets, hugging his sword like a teddy bear, and fell asleep, smiling. Tyla watched him for a few minutes before she caught herself doing it and stopped.
She took a few moments to think about Sky and the squids. She had accidentally promised to kill them, and she wasn't sure how to keep Sky away from her friends. Deciding that she would figure something out in the morning, Tyla placed her spare bed -carefully between Sky and the door- and went to sleep.
She was woken up by Sky shaking her and yelling; "Come on! Come on! Wake up wake up wake up!" Sky was standing over her, grinning broadly and shaking her with both hands. "Come on!" Tyla rolled onto her front and groaned. She normally slept late, and even so, this would not be her preferred way of waking up.
"Lemme get breakfast first." Tyla mumbled sleepily, and Sky wilted. "Come on!" he said. Tyla ignored him and fixed mushroom stew while he got more and more impatient. He made a squeaking sound, and Tyla shot him a disapproving look. "I'm not going out there before I've had breakfast, and you should really eat something, too."
Tyla handed Sky a bowl of mushroom stew, and he drank it in one go. Grinning again, he wiped his face on his sleeve and asked "Now can we go?"
Tyla and Sky -again armed with his 'budder' sword- went outside, and Sky immediately turned towards the ocean. "No!" Tyla said, and Sky stopped in his tracks, confused. "Uh. They're not there today." Tyla thought fast; chances were, the squids wouldn't be around, but she couldn't take any chances. "They're, uh, at a different lake. I can show you where." Tyla said, and Sky's face lit up. "Awesome!" he shouted. "Where is it?"
Tyla led Sky into the plains biome, where there wasn't a lake or pond for over two hundred blocks. Her vague plan was to turn them in a circle and head back home before they could actually find any lakes, although she had no idea where she was going to go from there.
"Screw Notch for getting me into this." Tyla cursed the creator of Minecraft. "And thank him if he'll get me out."
"Hah! She cursed you!" "I know, but it was you who really got that started." "…How did you know?" "It's a bit of a given. Now fess up; what did you do to Sky?"
