Hawksnest565

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Marik sighed, incredibly tempted to light what appeared to be the location of a makeshift campfire but who knew what trouble that might cause. But the camp had been made in a spot where the sun happened to be shining quite nicely at the moment, and whoever was staying he was nowhere in sight. He shifted into his bear form and sat down with his eyes closed, enjoying the warmth. The forest was quiet around him.

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Aya relaxed, happy to hear that there was at least one person Destin was willing to speak of. She looked over at the work he ewas doing, and was pleased to see how quickly he was getting it down. "This is so much better to do with someone else." she said cheerily, noticing that they had already nearly completed the sorting. "How do you think this season's going to turn out? Nobody's gotten sick yet in the Rabins, thank goodness. Although Sacha did get injured the other day." she flinched, not exactly wanting to say that it was a Brom who'd attacked her leader.

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In his contemplation of the surroundings, Marik noticed what appeared to be a makeshift camp nearby. It wasn't surprising, there was plenty of people who camped out around the place. He walked over to it, trying to distract himself from the weather by examining what was around there. Nothing about it seemed particularly harmful.

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Aya listened carefully to what Destin said about Misha. By the way they had been talking she'd assumed they were friends. Then again, Misha certainly hadn't looked like she'd jumped into the river at the time. It raised a question to her. "So... Who are your good friends in the Broms then?" She wanted to make sure he wasn't alone. Even though he'd sounded fairly confident when they'd met, she was surprised that no one else had been there to comfort him when he was in trouble.

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Marik, too, was out in the forest although he felt privy to return to camp at once given the chill of the outside. He'd left the camp more out of a desire for peace and quiet rather than any need to explore. It had been all too loud last night and this morning. Kianna was having a spat with some prisoner, there was a new member, not to mention there were several Broms in camp. The cold wind made him feel tired, and he stopped with a sigh and looked around. Was he near the unclaimed territory? He hadn't even be really paying attention to where he was walking.

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Aya wanted to kick herself. How could she have forgotten about how distraught Destin had been over the whole fiasco. She searched for another topic to talk about. "Umm... So... Misha seems like a nice person?" She was judging that description solely off the fact that Misha had sat in her lap for the fire. That was definitely the basis for a nice person. Or maybe she was just bias towards shifters that turned into cats.

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"Good idea," Aya stepped to the side so that he could get the herbs out of the backpack too. As she did, she felt a sudden thought overtake her mind. Does my hair look okay? I didn't brush it after I woke up... She bit her lip, trying to distract herself from it. What a ridiculous thing to think about it. Perhaps it was something about Destin being here. Not that she really cared when any of the Rabins would see her with messy hair. And he was just like them, right? A friend?
"Did you have any herbs left?" she blurted out in a higher tone than usual, desperate to distract herself from whatever terrible conversation was happening inside her head.

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"Ah, I'm happy to hear that." Aya frowned at his description of his tent being cold and drafty. "It's no good for you to be sleeping like that. You should get some more blankets." At the thought of Destin needing something, Aya immediately remembered his herb situation and rushed over to her backpack. In the haste of helping him last night she'd not had the time to unpack the herbs she'd gathered when out with Brick. "You'll need some of these, right?" Consumed by her need to help him she'd not heard Destin's whispered words.

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Destin smiles at her concern. It felt nice to have someone care about him. "Seems okay. A little tender, but not too bad." He looks around her tent. "So this is your tent...huh?" He asks, almost wanting to ask permission to snoop around. He looks at her, head tilted before rocking back and forth on his heels. "So uhh...did you sleep well?" He asks awkwardly. He wasn't used to actually being able to talk to her, without the fear of being caught, that it was super weird.

@Fionraella

"Yes, it is." Aya shifted to the side of the tent, sensing that he wanted to take a closer look at it. Even though it was her tent, a majority of the area appeared to be for communal use with two empty cots for the sick or injured and a chair between them where she could sit and keep watch if someone was dangerously ill. By one of the walls stood a cabinet in which the herbs and supplies she had were carefully sorted and stored. The cabinet had been some relic from the healers before her and its age was well shown with many scratches. Her cot was beside it with a small bedside table that held the few items that were hers alone; a torch, a pile of letters and a brooch of an owl with ruby eyes.
"I slept great, thanks!" Aya grinned, not really catching his nerves in the excitement of being able to talk to him. "Did you, as well? I know it's probably not the same as sleeping in your tent, but I hope it was okay."

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@Fionraella

Aya smiles and relaxes at the sight of Destin. So he didn't leave without saying goodbye. Really, she shouldn't have thought otherwise. It was wrong of her to jump to that conclusion. She was happy to notice that the light seemed to have returned to his eyes. Perhaps sleeping in a warm bed - or rather, on top of a warm bed - had done him some good.
"How are you feeling? How's your side?" The healer half of her took over, even though she was positive Destin had the know-how to take care of himself.