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Rishi Assuming your directions are correct, this is the temple where the healer is. It looks like some effort has been made to make it fancier lately, with a painted mural and decorative plasterwork around the door, but it is still just a door in a solid wall.
	 Inside is a long, somewhat cramped corridor, small lamps lighting the way. It opens out into a largish room, covered in decorative mosaics in blue and white, dominated by the large fountain in the center sitting under a dome with an occulus shining sunlight directly on the fountain.
Amilar Ereyo Ereyo lingers in front of the door for far longer than necessary, anxiously shifting her weight from one leg to the other and back again, all while frowning at the murals. Something is obviously making her hesitate. Then, after a good while and several festival parades for different little gods have passed, she sights deeply and musters the courage to enter.

As she walks the corridor, the clinking and whirring sounds of her artifical legs echo loudly through the space, announcing her approach. Finally, as she reaches what must be the blessed fountain of this place, the noise stops, and so do her steps. Ereyo casts an uneasy look around the place. "Uhm... hello...? Is anyone here?"

Rishi After she calls out, she can hear some clicking on the tiles and a woman in a long silk robe comes out, large bat wings folded behind her, beautiful face bearing a wide and happy grin. "Hello! I am being most of the apologetic there was not being someone out here to be meeting you. Were you wishing to be having the blessing from the miracle?" Her Firetongue accent is very strong, but with her melodious voice, it just makes her sound more attractive.
Amilar Ereyo The visitor looks taken aback by Rishi's unusual appearance, despite showing the markings of a Dragon-Blooded herself, and her casual uniform looks definitely Lookshyan to those who know about such things. There are dark circles around her eyes, and she is fidgeting nervously. At least she doesn't reach for the slender curved sword on her hip. Indeed, there is no hostility, just... wonder.

For a few moments, Ereyo just stares at the stranger, mouth slightly agape. Maybe she has heard rumors of who she might find here, but whatever those might have been, they clearly didn't prepare her for this meeting.

Then, something in her posture changes. She stands up straighter, manages a somewhat neutral expression, and bows respectfully, although not too deeply - after all, she's a Prince of the Earth herself.

"No need to apologize. I'm not here for the god's blessing... but for healing. Do you know here I might find the fabled Rishi?" It should be obvious that she might be talking to said Rishi, but she is clearly trying to be courteous.

Rishi "Oh! Yes, I am being Rishi." She raises an elegant clawed hand to her mouth in surprise. Then extends it in greeting, stepping forward. As she comes closer, she says "So, what is doing the troubling of you?" then she tilts her head to the side, her waterfall of dark hair flowing across her shoulders, sniffing the air for a moment and closing her eyes.
	 "...If you are wishing to be having the new leg, it will be most of the time consuming, but I am thinking I can be doing the helping." She blinks then says, "Oh, I am being most of the sorry. What is being your name, oh great Dragon?" with a smile like a carnivorous sheep.
Amilar Ereyo Ereyo blinks at that slightly unnerving smile, eyes widening slightly. A moment later, she pulls herself together and offers a far less toothy, tired smile in return. At least it seems sincere enough.

"Pleased to meet you, Rishi. My name is Ereyo, of Gens Amilar." She pauses, and large creases appear on her forehead as the full meaning of Rishi's words sinks in. "Wait. Did you just say 'new leg'...?" It's clear that this wasn't her reason for coming here, but now she cannot unhear that casually spoken offer.

Rishi Rishi grins happily. "It is being most wonderful to be having the meeting of you, Miss Amilar." She shakes your hand. "And yes. My blessing is being focused around the Changing Waters. It has done the giving of me most impressive of the healing ability."
	 "While I cannot be simply healing back your leg with the "quick dip" in the pool...I can be doing the telling of your leg to be getting of the longer. If I am doing this enough of the times and I am being most of the careful, which I will be doing, you should be having the leg back and doing the walking out of here on your own two feet. In several of the months, yes, but most would not be able to be doing that at all."
Amilar Ereyo The Dragon-Blooded looks stunned. "I... I have been told that even the Seventh Legion's most skilled physicians would not be able to fully restore a missing limb", she mutters. That look of wonder has returned to her face, now warring with slight suspicion. The perpetual currents of air moving her hair blow a bit stronger, enough for Rishi to feel a light breeze even from where she is standing.

"...hence why I settled to make Steadfast", Ereyo continues after a hesitant pause, patting her left leg. A faint hollow sound of flesh striking metal. "I'm not averse to discussing this, but not now. I'm here for a different reason." She lowers her voice a bit, and when she speaks again, her words sound more urgent. Desperate, even. "If you can treat missing limbs, surely you can help with lack of sleep?"

Rishi "My blessing is being most focused on the change and the growth. I am having none of the power to control the fire, the air, the earth, or the wood. Even the water is refusing me." she blinks and quickly says "much of the time it is refusing. But my healing is being most wondrous." she smiles.
	 Her expression turns serious when the other woman explains why she is here. Rishi nods, then reaches out. "May I?" Assuming consent is given, she feels your head, looks deeply in your eyes, takes your pulse, and listens to your heart. "What are you doing the feeling of when you are trying to be sleeping?"
Amilar Ereyo Rishi's explanation does little to dispel the shadows of doubt from Ereyo's features. If anything, her frown threatens to deepen, despite her obvious attempts at maintaining a neutral expression. This time, when she returns the healer's smile at her mention of the element of water refusing her, it seems forced.

Despite all of this, she consents to the examination - although Rishi might notice the tension in the Air Aspect's body at her touch. At least there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with her... not physically.

At Rishi's enquiry, Ereyo looks puzzled. A few seconds pass before she manages to reply: "I'm sorry. Maybe I misheard. You are asking what I'm ~feeling~ when I'm trying to fall asleep...?"

Rishi If Rishi notices the tension in the other woman, she doesn't comment on it. Though, given the exam, it seems like it'd be very difficult for her not to notice. "Yes. When you are trying to be 'having the nap' what is doing the happening? Are you feeling the restless, like there is still the thing to be doing? Are you feeling the cramped? The worried?" She gives you a solemn look. "Are you hearing ..the wars or the fighting, perhaps?"
Amilar Ereyo All of these questions only serve to exacerbate the Dragon's unease - is Rishi herself still the cause, or are her words hitting too close to home? Ereyo returns the healer's gaze only for a few moments, long enough for Rishi to notice the vivid violet of the Lookshyan's eyes darkening to stormy purple. Then, her patient looks away sharply, clenching her fists.

"Restless, yes", she says softly. "That sounds about right. Worried, too. The last weeks have been stressful, and I've had a... weird encounter." She peers at the "Exigent" from the corner of her eye. "Look, if you have medicine to help me fall asleep, to calm that storm of thoughts in my head... that's really all I'm asking for."

Rishi Rishi nods, then says "I can be making you a sleeping draft that will be doing the 'knocking you out' most swiftly. Or you can be doing the visiting of Amethyst's Apothecary shop, if you would rather be doing the trusting of another who bears the Dragon's Blood. I can be giving you directions."
	 She gives you a concerned look and walks over to a bench and pats the seat next to her. "But, from what I am seeing, you are being most healthy, just tired. So, the thing that is doing the keeping of you awake? It is being the stress and the tension. Doing the talking about it, getting it 'off the chest,' will likely be doing more to be helping than any of the potions I can be making."
Amilar Ereyo The mention of Amethyst's shop prompts Ereyo to turn towards the other Exalt again, and some of the tension leaves her. She watches Rishi closely, not only listening to what she's saying, but paying close attention to her body language. When the Chosen of Cleansing Waters invites her to sit, Ereyo takes a few steps towards the bench. She doesn't sit down just yet. Instead, she stands just out of arm's reach, biting her lower lip.

"To be honest, I went there first before seeking you out for aid. It's currently closed. I suspect she went on one of her expeditions, or maybe she's taking a vacation... I'm certain you know her better than me." Ereyo trails off, and eyes the seat next to Rishi. When she finally sits down, she does so only tentatively, with a tense smile.

"Do people do this a lot around here? Talking to a stranger about their troubles, I mean. I must admit, taking that sleeping draft sounds preferable to me."

Rishi "Sometimes ...it can be easier to be doing the talking to someone who is not being the involved, someone you are not having to be doing the impressing, or the worrying if you are going to be doing the offending, or any of the things. And, I will be doing the making of the sleeping potion for you, whatever of the else is happening. But... Releasing the feelings from the inside will be doing the helping too. And I may be able to be giving you the advice. You said you had the encounter of the strange?"
Amilar Ereyo Ereyo listens intently to Rishi's accentuated speech. Now that she is sitting closer to the strange woman, tension returns to her shoulders. Still, she is trying her best to remain calm and attentive. She has crossed her legs, with the artificial left one at the bottom. Her remaining right leg is in constant motion, either swinging back and forth or twitching in irregular intervals.

After she has mulled over the healer's words a bit, she mutters: "You're not the first one to tell me that, I assure you. Before I answer your question, may I ask you something?" She inclines her head towards the fountain. "Did they survive?" Upon realizing that her question lacks some context, she quickly adds: "Your patron, I mean."

Rishi Rishi smiles oddly. "Oh yes, she is thriving most well. But not dwelling here. I am being most appreciative of the blessing, so that I can be doing the helping of all the people. Like you." She turns around and boops your nose, grinning. "So, stop doing the stalling and be telling me your troubles. If you are doing the wanting, I can be getting you a drink and you can be thinking of me as being a tender of the bar."
Amilar Ereyo That boop catches Ereyo completely off-guard, as is clear from her expression. She flinches, even looking like she might jump from her seat. "Did you just..." Astonishment causes her voice to break off with a little squeal. The Dragon composes herself and tries again, a bit calmer now. "Please do ~not~ touch me without asking", she tells Rishi firmly. Now there is some steel in her voice. At least her eyes don't darken again - she can tell that Rishi meant no harm.

Ereyo considers the offer, then shakes her head. "No, I'm good. Thank you. Look, I... this is hard." A deep breath is being drawn in, then let out very slowly as she gathers her courage. "I encounter strange things all the time. One could say I'm quite used to it. Drawn to it, even." She smiles wistfully, then frowns. "As you know, there are many supernatural beings roaming Creation. Some are more alien than others. Some are quite dangerous." Her eyes seek Rishi's, then linger there as if searching for something. "Tell me, have you ever met one of the Sun-touched demons?"

Rishi Rishi raises her hands and says "I am being most sorry, oh wise Dragon, but you seemed to be needing a bit of the shock to be getting you to be doing the moving. Do not worry, I shall be doing the asking before I am putting my hands any of the where." ...ok, she's definitely flirting a bit now.
	 When Ereyo start talking, Rishi listens attentively, nodding along at the idea of dangerous alien beings. When asked if she's met a Sun-Touched, she has a sharp intake of breath. "...Yes. I have done the meeting of them before."
Amilar Ereyo At Rishi's reaction to her question about the Solar Anathema, Ereyo's fidgeting intensifies. She clasps her hands over her knee in a useless attempt to stop her crossed legs from shaking slightly. Her gaze stays firmly locked with the Exigent's. "I presume you've heard the stories... or rather, the legends. What they're capable of. The atrocities they commit when one of them shows up... it's said that they are few and far between, unlike the Lunar monstrosities, but..."

Now she looks away, frowning at her twitching fingers. "...I'm certain I've met one recently. It wasn't at all what I had expected, and that... troubles me in ways that I'm not quite certain how to explain." Another searching glance at Rishi's face. "What was it like for you? Were you scared? Did you run?"

Rishi Rishi hrms. "My meetings with the Anathema are being a bit of the complicated." She frowns. "I am being the healer. I am being bound to not be speaking of patients. Much as I will not be telling the others of what we are talking of this day, I am not to be doing the speaking about the other patients. And I should not be doing the talking further of the Anathema." Her voice is a little hesitant and ...sad.
	 "If this is meaning you can no-longer be doing the trusting of me, I can be directing you to the street with many of the apothecaries on it, so you can be doing the finding of the sleeping potion there." She looks at you with large hopeful eyes. "But, I am still being wishing to be hearing of your troubles and this encounter you are having."
Amilar Ereyo Ereyo puckers her lips in dissatisfaction at that answer. Maybe she was hoping to hear someone else's account of such an encounter? Upon seeing Rishi's sadness, she nods in understanding and busies herself with trying to reign in several strands of raven-black hair, tucking them behind her ears. The constant light breeze in her vicinity seems to almost have a peculiar mind of its own - as if the very air is on a constant quest to mess up the Chosen's hairstyle, if one could call it that.

Awkward silence stretches between the two women while Ereyo considers her options.

Eventually, she shakes her head, expression grim. "You don't have to apologize. I'm not even surprised. There's constant talk... rumors about Anathema in this city. It's almost inevitable, given the ease with which they can blend in here." She takes another good look at Rishi, and something shifts in her features as she recognizes the other woman's sadness. Compassion, understanding. "My apologies. Of course I'm going to respect your other patient's privacy. My duty would be to inquire further... but forcing you to violate your oath? No."

The dragon sniffs, and the colour of her eyes grows strangely dull, shifting towards the blueish gray of a sky laden with rain clouds. "It... ~he~... was a large, imposing man, a veritable giant. That alone doesn't mean much, I know. I've met my share of those." Here, she smiles briefly before continuing: "He was traveling alone across the Hundred Kingdoms, and so was I. A landslide had blocked the trade road ahead, and all the merchants traveling into that direction were piling up in front of the obstacle. The mortals thought him a bandit and were quite afraid of him. What I saw was a lone man in tattered clothes, so I walked up to where he was perched, well away from the fearful mortals, and convinced him to help clear the road. I don't know what I expected. It certainly wasn't watching him level a small mountain of earth with his bare hands, but that was ~exactly~ what he did..."

Rishi "Thank you for your understanding, oh compassionate Dragon." As the other woman continues, Rishi frowns again. "But...Could he not have been a Dragon of the Earth? Or...I am knowing another who was blessed by a God of the Strength who is being most large? Did..Did you see his Anima?"
Amilar Ereyo The Air Aspect's fingers are back at her knee, worrying at the loose fabric. She firmly shakes her head. "There were none of the usual markings of an Earth Dragon about him. Trust me, I would have noticed." Her gaze starts wandering about the room as she continues her narration. "There was no Anima I could see, either. Yet... I caught a glimpse of something beneath his jacket. At first I thought I'd just imagined it. Only when he showed it to me later, I realized..."

She stops, catches herself, and draws in a shaky breath. "But I'm getting ahead of myself. You see, I didn't force him to do that out of the kindness of his heart. Those people hadn't been kind to him either. What I offered him in return was food and drink at a nearby inn. So that's how we ended up dining together."

Another brief smile, bemused this time. "If only I would have known... That he wasn't mortal seemed obvious, but I thought him another Chosen of the Little Gods, you see. When I inquired about his nature, I really thought nothing of it. Just curiosity, you know?" She looks at Rishi again and gestures with her right hand, almost as if she was trying to pluck her own words out of the air. "He didn't pretend, even though I practically ~served~ him a lie that I would have believed, had he told it himself. No, he asked me questions... unsettling questions... and then he showed me the demon-gold armor hidden underneath his coat."

Here, her voice drops to a mere whisper. "We were not alone, Rishi. The inn had other patrons. I've known the owners for a few years. They're kind people. ~Vulnerable~ people. In that moment, I had a brief vision... all of these mortals dead and broken, their bodies buried beneath the building's rubble... because he could have done just that, and I... I would have been powerless to stop him."

The muscles in Ereyo's jaw tense, and her right leg starts to shake again.

Rishi "....May I be giving you the hug?" after the hug is either given or refused, Rishi says "....I am being hoping that your visions did not do the coming to be passing."
	 She hesitates, then says "....It is being within my powers to be helping people to be the stronger or the faster or such things, to be helping them by enhancing their bodies. It is being the small gift, nothing a Great Dragon could not be doing herself with some training...but if being even slightly stronger would be helping you to be feeling like you are doing the regaining of the control, I am being at the service of yours."
Amilar Ereyo Despite herself, Ereyo doesn't refuse the hug. It is certainly needed. But she doesn't let it drag on.

"...that's very kind of you", she manages to say. Again that shaky smile, but a bit brighter and warmer now. Still, the air around them is thick with the ominous scent of lighting. "I would rather avoid violence instead of honing my body for it, to be honest. Of course, I'm a soldier, and I've been trained how to handle myself in a fight, but my Essence is better spent dealing with complex engineering problems and sorcerous marvels." The Dragon's eyes wander again, now tracing the room's mosaics all the to the ceiling.

"Even if I were a marvelous warrior, it might not have been enough. There's a reason we don't face the Anathema alone if we can help it. Even a single one is extremely dangerous." Ereyo sights heavily. "Which is why I didn't engage. Of course, he could have still killed me there and then, and I fully expected him to... I had seen his face, heard his name - if it wasn't even his real one. But he didn't. He just... seemed disappointed? Angry? I can't stop thinking about his reaction. Instead of breaking my body like he broke so many other things, he... left. And I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe he did something to my mind... that's what the Immaculates say about Anathema - that they can corrupt and warp the thoughts of others."

Now she peers at Rishi, and her expression reads clearly enough: ~Please tell me I'm not going crazy~, it seems to scream.

Rishi For a moment, Rishi seems on the verge of admitting something. Perhaps she was moved by your plight and she was going to divulge information about another patient. Perhaps something ...else. But the moment passes, and she closes her mouth.
	 "....I am ...not being the scholar of the Immaculate Texts. I am from being south of the Prasad and I am the follower of another of the gods as well. So, I am not knowing too much of what they are doing the saying of the Anathema. But, I have been doing some of the reading of the books that Amethyst is having. In one of the books, it is saying that, the Silver and the Gold Anathema...it is doing the saying that they are not the 'evil witches using the stolen power,' but they are true Chosen, such as us." 

	 She looks down, sad. "But...the gods that are doing the empowering of them, the ones of the sky, are being too much the powerful, too far away from Creation. Even if they are being the good people now, the power is being ...too much and it they are being made ...crazy by it. Eventually." She looks up once more. "Perhaps the one you are doing the meeting of is simply being the ...young? And lost? Not the one who has been made the crazy yet."
Amilar Ereyo These words appear to have the desired effect, at least if they were supposed to comfort and calm Ereyo. After a quick and furious rub of her temples, the Dragon cocks her head, her eyes loosing focus as she thinks this through. Quite thoroughly.

"I've heard tales like these", she admits eventually. "An elder sohei - a monk - who has been a staunch adherent of the Faith for the better part of two centuries told me that there was more to the Lunar and Solar Anathema than the Immaculate Texts revealed. It's just... I've never been particularly devoted to studying the matter myself."

She unfolds her legs to stretch them and regards the woman beside her with a slight frown. "Their telltale glow sounds just like a description of an Anima, something only the Chosen possess, at least to my knowledge. If that being that I encountered was a haunted man full of divine power that he could not hope to control for long, slowly being driven mad... I still failed in my duty." Her face saddens. With hunched shoulders, she leans forward, letting her hands fall into her lap, palms turned up. "If there would be a way to self him from himself, surely one among the many wise scholars who concern themselves with such things would have found it by now. A Wyld Hunt would be needed to free his soul from his madness... ideally before it's too late - before he turns into a rampaging monster."

Rishi Rishi winces, as Ereyo starts considering calling in a Wyld Hunt. Hopefully she's too pre-occupied to notice. "If you were to be doing the trying of this, how would you even be doing the finding of him again? Or would you simply be doing the reporting of your encounter to the Monks?"
Amilar Ereyo While the Dragon indeed seems preoccupied with the theory presented to her and her current train of thought, some part of her senses is still focused on her surroundings - more specifically, on Rishi. She shoots the healer a sharp look for that. Upon hearing Rishi's following words, Ereyo narrows her eyes, just a bit. Her expression becomes noticeably more guarded.

"Why are you asking? You wouldn't care either way, or would you?" The Dragon-Blooded angles her prosthetic leg and plants it firmly on the ground, sitting up straighter in the processes. She's watching Rishi very carefully now.

Rishi Rishi briefly wishes she had her mate's clever brain and silver tongue here, but she's going to try to muddle through this. She gives Ereyo a concerned look. "I was simply doing the wondering if it was being at all feasible for you to be trying to be intervening here. There is no need to be doing the getting angry." She peers closer at the other woman, her concern deepening. "You have been lacking the sleep for awhile now, yes? That can be having the large of the effect upon you, making you irritable and most suspicious of the others."
	 "Let me go do the making of the sleeping draft. You can be remaining here to do the napping if you are doing the wanting." She looks into the other woman's eyes, serious all of a sudden. "It is being most safe here." She smiles again. "Or you can be taking it and heading back to where you are doing the staying. Either way, I will be writing you the instructions." Her smile widens. "Do not do the worrying, my writing in the Speaking of the River is being much better than my speaking."
Amilar Ereyo Turns out Rishi still has a knack for subtlety if she really puts her mind to it. Despite having roused the Dragon-Blooded's suspicion, that appeal to her patient's well-being has the desired effect: Ereyo frowns and presses her lips together, suddenly self-conscious. After one good, long look into the other Exalt's eyes, she averts her gaze.

"You are... not wrong", she admits hoarsely. "Forgive me. I've truly been irrational and irritable for a while now. Not the kind of behavior I want to become a habit."

As Rishi suggests the sleeping potion, doubt briefly crosses Ereyo's features. This time, it doesn't linger for long. She nods almost eagerly. "That's kind of you. But while I appreciate the offer of sleeping here, I disagree on your safety assessment." A brief smile. "I'm going to take it in my own bed, where I feel quite safe." Another thought crosses her mind, and the smile vanishes. "I trust that your instructions will contain a list of all the ingredients?"

Rishi Rishi looks surprised. "Oh! Is there being anything you cannot be doing the having? Or the other allergies? I did not think that the Dragons would be having the allergies, but I can be including the ingridients, yes."
	 "Oh yes, when you are doing the taking of this, make sure you are being in a place where you can be doing the resting for the long time." She smiles. "You are being most tired so, once your body is doing the relaxing, it will likely be doing the collapsing until you are being the properly rested. So, be making sure you are having the most comfy bed." And on that note she vanishes off into the back to brew the medicine.
Amilar Ereyo "Oh, no. No allergies", Ereyo swiftly assures her. "Standard procedure. My staff would need to know, just in case I react to the medicine in some... unexpected way. Safety before privacy, you know?" She gives an exasperated sigh, nods to Rishi's instructions, then watches as the healer disappears Dragons-know-where. Instead of remaining on the bench, she stands up, stretches her legs a bit, then starts pacing around the room. The soft noises of her prosthesis adjusting to her movements echo in the huge space.
Rishi In the back rooms, Rishi goes to her plants and herbs, as well as to the dried powders that Ammy has made for her, cutting and gathering them with more than just practiced ease. A supernatural swiftness comes over her as she chops, infuses, boils, and combines things, moving so quickly she almost looks like she has four arms at times, as her anima slowly rises about her, looking like light reflected through water, all blue-silver and shimmery. She keeps glancing over her shoulder, like she thinks someone might have followed her. In any case, all too quickly, the medicine is complete.
	 Rishi comes back after a few minutes, her anima glowing lightly. "I would not wanting to be keeping the most noble and wise of Dragons doing the waiting, so I did the "hard work," which is why I am doing the glowing." She bows as she presents to you a cloth bundle. "There are being the seven herb satchets in there, as well as the detailed instructions and the herbs I am doing the using. Steep one satchet in the hot water for the full candlemark, then be doing the drinking of it swiftly. And be near the bed, because you will be the most tired." She looks very serious now. "Do NOT be doing the drinking of the more than one before the next day! And, after you are doing the waking, you may still be the tired for the time, so do NOT be doing anything of the dangerous! None of the morning sword training until you are being the fully awake, yes?" 

	 She goes back to her default state of smiling. "If you are still having the trouble after the end of the Week, come back and we can be doing more of the talking and I can be doing the giving of you more of the herbs. And, while I am doing the giving of my help most freely, if you are finding this is doing the helping of you... I would hope that such a mighty and generous Dragon would be giving the temple the donation that she is feeling most appropriate?"
Amilar Ereyo Rishi finds the Air Aspect leaning over the fountain, peering into its fabled waters. At the sight of the Exigent's anima, she rapidly blinks a few times, then brightens. Whatever lingering suspicion she might have harbored evaporates, shoulders relaxing and soft feature settling into a bright smile. She looks relieved.

After listening to the long list of instructions and warnings attentively, the Dragon-Blooded gives a firm nod. "Understood. I will call off my next few upcoming lectures, until I can feel confident that my body has adjusted to the medicine." The bundle disappears into her satchel, which looks a bit stuffed now.

After fastening the buckles, Ereyo's bright eyes return to Rishi, and she beams at the healer. "Thank you so much... for everything. You were absolutely right; talking to someone ~did~ help. I feel a little better now. This kind of matter isn't something I would discuss with my friends, staff, or family." A slight frown, then she adds: "I was going to ask how much I owe you, but if you insist on not wanting to get paid yourself... well, your temple is going to receive a generous donation in short order."

She bows respectfully. "You have shown me a path out of my current predicament, for which I'm especially grateful. May the Dragons bless you with good fortune."

Amilar Ereyo Satisfied, Ereyo turns and starts walking with a slight springt in her step. Out of the quiet temple, back on Great Forks' eternally crowded streets, she breaths in deeply a few times. Her fang of household guard, ordered to wait for her just outside, snap back to attention.

"Let's go back to the university", she says cheerfully. "Tonight, I'm going to ~sleep~."

Rishi In the temple Rishi's smile fades into a frown, head tilted as she's considering. When her pointed ears hear the door closing, she suddenly springs into motion, launching herself through the occulus and into the sky. Moments later, a falcon is in the air, flying off after this most interesting Dragon. After all, a healer should know where her patient resides, yes?