healing

The road back from the Border Skirmish was long, painfully so and when the wounded had been returned to their rooms Arbok found herself in what seemed like endless days slowly being fed and healed, almost too weak to empty her own chamber pot. So when the time came when The Order deemed she was...

Kristen sat in the infirmary of the Academy. Her arms she had held together, helplessly staring at their symmetry. Symmetry, that was, until it came to the wrist of her right arm, where the hand above was no more. Bandages concealed the stump. Yet underneath, she knew, there lay a most horrid...

Blood marked the pure white wings of Montbank. Wings that trailed the floor of the healer's lodge as they drooped, dejected. He looked down at the tips of his wings as they became further marked. He tried to will his wings to have some dignity. But strength was a distant concept. Behind him was...

The Temple of the Celestials in Alliria. The hour of healing. "Go with the love of Astra, my child. May Aionus watch over you." She smiled warmly as she helped a middle aged woman off the alter, healed of the painful sores that plagued her body. The woman thanked the priestess vehemently...

"Oh cummon boys!" the urchin pleaded, backing down the alleyway, away from the group of considerably older men who were assailing him. "I won fair an' square! Ain't nuthin' ta get upset about Ya win some, ya lose some. That's just 'ow cards work. 'Ow about I buy ya all a drink, huh? No 'ard...

Beyond the Alliria Reach towards The Spine the Leprechaun had fled with the child trusted to him in the heat of battle. Each step had been agony. A war he had with himself not to turn back and save the woman whose icy gaze had finally begun to thaw in their last moment together. The taste of her...

A plague doctor she was not. But she was a doctor, and it was a plague that she was currently testing in her bottles and test tubes. The castle keep where they were treating the plague was spacious yet secure, making it easier to quarantine the sick away from the guardsmen and those who weren't...