[What little urgency she can muster is dwarfed somewhat by how weary she is, how she sags against him and lets his arms and his promises wrap around her like a blanket.]
We promised, we get him out first. We can't leave him alone, not like this.
[She closes her eyes, just for a minute, resting in the comfort of darkness before opening them again.]
He was like this, the night I met him. He came to our camp looking for healing. There was nowhere else he could go. Our elder — my grandfather — we, we help everyone but he was the son of Dracula, whose wife had just died, and we had come to preserve her story though we knew we were unwelcome. We gave him supplies but could not let him stay, and I told him I would still come and help him even so...I sewed him up just like this and he slept the night in the woods, and I didn't even tell him my name.
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[What little urgency she can muster is dwarfed somewhat by how weary she is, how she sags against him and lets his arms and his promises wrap around her like a blanket.]
We promised, we get him out first. We can't leave him alone, not like this.
[She closes her eyes, just for a minute, resting in the comfort of darkness before opening them again.]
He was like this, the night I met him. He came to our camp looking for healing. There was nowhere else he could go. Our elder — my grandfather — we, we help everyone but he was the son of Dracula, whose wife had just died, and we had come to preserve her story though we knew we were unwelcome. We gave him supplies but could not let him stay, and I told him I would still come and help him even so...I sewed him up just like this and he slept the night in the woods, and I didn't even tell him my name.