Hotaru laughed a little about the whole scene with the tea, turning and leaving as Kaori finally gave Larel his tea. She wasn't missing the fact she could somewhat hear Mera's conversation with Alari, but she made the effort not to listen, just going to try and find some fowl to deal with Larel's appetite.

Mera grit her teeth a bit as he started to respond, taking a deep slow breath, "And what the hell do you think I can do to fix it, Alari? If I could, do not think I would have done that first?" she threw her hands up, "I literally can do nothing for her. No herbs will fix what is wrong," she said sharply, throwing her hands on that direction before turning away and walking back the way she came a few steps, the tree closest to her started to lean away, "I [i]hate[/i] this," she put her hands to her head, her voice breaking, before whirling around to him again, "Even with those stupid braces off, I am.... powerless to do anything," she put her arms out to show she had taken them off, "I couldn't prevent any of this.... I couldn't keep Thanos or Hotaru away from those monsters, I couldn't just face this when it started which lead to this situation where you..." her voice broke as she couldn't manage to say the words, "And now Mary is in her current state. I can't just fix it. Nothing will make this go away, I just wish I didn't have to feel this way about it. You went and put a crack in that wall I have tried so hard to keep up all these years, and now I can't stop feeling every level of it, and I don't want it," she put her hands to her head, gritting her teeth, "And I can't face any of them back there because I have to have a certain kind of strength to be in the same area because they expect it from me. Larel, goddess forbid he ever finds out that my whole world is falling apart right now because I have feelings for that I have been fighting all this time. If he doesn't hate me for it, I'll be surprised, and I've become attached to him and Hotaru and if something were to happen to them to drive them away from me..." she breathed out heavily, throwing her hands up again and pacing away.

"What do you want to beat this isn't something almighty Mera can fix?"
"If you can't figure out," Eryn ignored Raina, looking at Larel, "Raina here has issues with Mera. She dealt with people comparing the two of them growing up since they look alike, but Raina has no elemental connection like her, and so she's always spent her life trying to prove she's better than her and when people are super focused on Mera, it makes her annoyed," he said with a tone of pity which made Raina's eyes twitch, "However, there is a possibility Mary has to recover on her own. Mera [i]does[/i] know more about the artifacts after studying them for a year, and after having Mother tell her what she knew about them," He looked at Raina at that and she looked off to the side, "But Mera can't even heal herself after using hers, so that could be another reason why she walked away because she's feeling frustrated about that," he suggested as Hotaru returned, toting two birds back. She quickly plucked the feathers out as she walked over to where Eryn was waiting next to the fire. She had it to him and he got them on the stick as well, setting them so they would cook.
"Both are for him?" Raina raised a brow.
"Yea, no one else asked me to catch them anything and trust me," Hotaru waved it off, "He'll need it either now or later," She said as she went and sat down near Larel, looking around, listening a bit to see if she could hear what was going on.