Author's Note: Dearest Reader(s), since you are a guest I cannot address you by name. So, to the nice person who writes the reviews.
1. I love you! Feel cuddled!
2. Bato did know she was a healer, because they told him. He did not walk straight back out, they had to explain him, well, a little bit. I just did not write this conversation, because I found it funny to let him only say 'Can I join?'- Enough explained? If not, you know how to contact me.
So, let's go on with it!
Toreth was fascinated. The ship sailed over the flat sea with a nice speed, she thought, of course if she ran she could be as fast, but she could not watch the captain all day if she did. This way she looked at him giving orders and guiding the ship over the water, looked at the peaceful sea and looked back again.
She felt her hair waving in the wind and almost forgot everything that bothered her on land. Toreth decided that she liked being on a ship. When she entered it it was a little scary, but now it seemed nice. She saw that Hakoda was in his element, he really liked sailing like this, even if he said he liked it far more to be with his family.
His family, she thought, it seems to be the most important part of his life. All he cared about was protecting them. Toreth wondered what this Kya was like. If she had been like her or completely different. He told her that she was dead and she saw the mourning in his eyes, saw that he would ever miss her. It hurt her a little bit that she would never be the only one to him, but then again it was not important to her, if she could be with him few things were.
Maybe I am just in a certain age, she thought, maybe he is too.
They were sleeping under the deck when she felt as if the ship was thrown apart. She ran up, her eyes wide and full of panic and shock. She saw Hakoda standing near the far end of the ship yelling orders at the hastily running men. Suddenly she did not like traveling like this so much anymore. As a big wave hit the ship they were all thrown left and she quickly grabbed a hold on the mast. A few men were even thrown off the ship. If they could not save them they would not survive this storm for sure, but it did not seem like they could. Eyes full of tears Toreth stood there clenched at the mast, just staring at them. Then she thought about what she could do, thought about the little roots she kept with her when they sailed.
She grabbed them and quickly they began to grow. One of them she swung around the mast, just so she would not be swept off. Then she let the others grow far longer and threw them to the men in the water. Surprised they took them and she managed to get them back on board. Breathing heavily she looked at them, one was hurt pretty badly. Something had hit him, there was blood over most of his body. She secured him next to herself with roots and knelt down beside him. Afterward she laid one of her hands on his body and a green light emerged from it. Seconds later the body of the man was all glowing. The light form extended where parts of his body were missing and when the light faded he was all well and sleeping soundly again. Toreth leaned against the mast. She was exhausted. For years she had not done so much with her magic, and now so much at once.
Soon afterward the storm was over and she was the one setting a foot on the ground again first when they landed. She sank down to her knees and slung her arms around her thin form. She shivered and in the next moment strong arms were around her. She looked up in his worried face. "You did too much, didn't you?", he asked. She answered whispering, "No, it is just… I did not do so much for such a long time. I should invest more time in training..."