At the curt response at first Iris flinched, she didn’t expect anything warm of course but just at the word of he was fine didn’t sit right. She wanted to know more, she needed to know that he was okay and everything was fine, that his wounds had been healed with nothing major happening like his leg needing to be amputated or his arm for that matter seeing as she hadn’t done the most amazing of jobs with treating it. Iris was no doctor, but she tried to keep it clean and kept away from any dirt and she had done her best, hopefully it was enough for him to make it through.
Though as he expanded, she felt relieved, sighing softly to herself knowing that his major wounds had been treated and he must have been well enough to go home to rest there. It was something that had been playing on her mind when time permitted her to think, when she knew that she was alone, and no one was around she often thought about how well he was doing. When pushing him back to the Capital he was so badly hurt that she worried she wouldn’t make it in time, that the injuries were too severe, and he would bleed out. Resting at home, I’m so glad. I feared he wouldn’t make it. Those injuries, but he did. He’s alive. Not bothering to ask anything more she knew that he didn’t want to talk, she didn’t fancy it either as all she wanted to know was that Caspian was fine.
Settling on the bed she wondered if he knew where she was, if he knew what had happened already. Remembering how he had promised he would fight for her did give her a little bit of comfort, but in all honesty, she had excepted her fate when she didn’t flee at the border. Treason was and always will be punishable by death. At least he knows, he understands the state of the districts. It was a small victory that even if she died, he understood, he would act on it and do something when he had power and she had to believe that. Believing in him and the King she knew he could become with just someone having a little confidence in him, perhaps his friends maybe?
Closing her eyes, she thought maybe it would be best to try and get some rest, even whilst her fate was in a limbo, she could try to get some sleep which would help aid in her own recovery. The sickly feeling had never left, her stomach was uncomfortable, but she was only just noticing it now as the pain from her neck was ebbing away with each passing minute. With her eyes closed there was silence once more giving her time to think about Caspain and how she wished she felt confident to ask Jacob to pass on a message, but the instant she thought it she knew it was bad. Though as she thought about Caspain some more she knew how he had been feeling about his father, a part of her thinking on if their reunion had been a good one. Probably not, if he finds out about this… I don’t think it will help.
“Don’t tell him about this. About what happened.” Not even bothering to look over at Jacob as she spoke one last thing, she didn’t want Caspain to know what had happened in the prison. What had happened with the interrogation because she didn’t want it affecting his relationship with his father. Of course, she knew Atlas wanted her dead, but she also knew Cas wanted to see that love from him especially after he thought his father had abandoned him out in the districts. Whatever happened in the prison was insignificant if she was going to die anyway, why put a strain on an already rocky relationship.