"Well, she's taking things rather calmly." Said the brightly-clad Healer
as she walked into the room. She had watched the interchange between the
Queen's Own and her newest charge in absolute amazement that soon turned to
suspicion. "You spelled her didn't you?"
"I didn't spell her Mira." Talia sighed. "I induced an empathic loop on her memory. This child has been through so much already. The most I could get was that her life has been an absolute mess. Grief on grief. I would spare her any grief I could. As it is, she will remember everything when she is ready to handle it. Right now though, those memories could break her apart."
The Healer Mira sighed. "I suppose you're right. Gods know, I'm no mind- healer. Well, physically she's not doing too badly. Her feet are a mess, but they should be better with a few days Healing. Has she got any family?"
"Not that we've been able to find. Sen has been investigating the villages around the area she was in. As far as anyone could tell, she was a serving girl at The Windrider's Rest, and you've heard what happened there."
Healer Mira looked at the sleeping girl with increased sympathy in her eyes. Everyone in Valdemar had heard of the massacre at that unfortunate tavern. In a town called Hope of all places. "Poor thing. So she's got nowhere to go?"
"Actually, Sen proposed that we offer her a job as an assistant to Mero. You know how busy he's been with Gaytha and the new baby." Talia replied. She smiled as she thought of the chubby little infant whose conception had so shocked both parents.
"Sen?" Mira raised an eyebrow in question. She had never known that particular Herald to suggest much of anything. Ever.
"Yes, Sen." Chuckled Talia at Mira's disbelief. It had shocked half the Heraldic Circle into speechlessness as well, when he had made the request. In fact, most of them had been gaping like fish out of water as the normally silent Herald actually spoke. Even the redoubtable Herald-Captain Kerowyn had lost her dignity, looking remarkably like the proverbial stunned sheep. "It was just amazing. For a man who never says more than five words at a time, Herald Sen was remarkably eloquent."
"Huh," was all the reply Talia got as Mira shook her head and walked right out the door. Talia's chuckle grew into a laugh. Murdering psychotic mages, magic storms, evil armies, traumatized children, and the aftermaths of countless daring missions Valdemar could handle. But a speech-making Sen? The world just wasn't ready.
"I didn't spell her Mira." Talia sighed. "I induced an empathic loop on her memory. This child has been through so much already. The most I could get was that her life has been an absolute mess. Grief on grief. I would spare her any grief I could. As it is, she will remember everything when she is ready to handle it. Right now though, those memories could break her apart."
The Healer Mira sighed. "I suppose you're right. Gods know, I'm no mind- healer. Well, physically she's not doing too badly. Her feet are a mess, but they should be better with a few days Healing. Has she got any family?"
"Not that we've been able to find. Sen has been investigating the villages around the area she was in. As far as anyone could tell, she was a serving girl at The Windrider's Rest, and you've heard what happened there."
Healer Mira looked at the sleeping girl with increased sympathy in her eyes. Everyone in Valdemar had heard of the massacre at that unfortunate tavern. In a town called Hope of all places. "Poor thing. So she's got nowhere to go?"
"Actually, Sen proposed that we offer her a job as an assistant to Mero. You know how busy he's been with Gaytha and the new baby." Talia replied. She smiled as she thought of the chubby little infant whose conception had so shocked both parents.
"Sen?" Mira raised an eyebrow in question. She had never known that particular Herald to suggest much of anything. Ever.
"Yes, Sen." Chuckled Talia at Mira's disbelief. It had shocked half the Heraldic Circle into speechlessness as well, when he had made the request. In fact, most of them had been gaping like fish out of water as the normally silent Herald actually spoke. Even the redoubtable Herald-Captain Kerowyn had lost her dignity, looking remarkably like the proverbial stunned sheep. "It was just amazing. For a man who never says more than five words at a time, Herald Sen was remarkably eloquent."
"Huh," was all the reply Talia got as Mira shook her head and walked right out the door. Talia's chuckle grew into a laugh. Murdering psychotic mages, magic storms, evil armies, traumatized children, and the aftermaths of countless daring missions Valdemar could handle. But a speech-making Sen? The world just wasn't ready.