[open] we all live and breathe

[eolasemah]

WHO: Sina and yyyooooouuuu
WHAT: Miscellaneous early spring interactions!
WHEN: Drakonis-ish
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: get er while she's still kickin

The Healing Tents

Now that the weather is warming ever so slightly, and Sina is feeling ever so slightly better, she's throwing herself back into assisting the Inquisition's healers. Though she uses magic sometimes, for the most part she's helping out by providing poultices, herbal remedies, and a soothing bedside manner to the ailing patients, keeping herself busy and no longer focused on the anchor in her chest.

This is how she spends the majority of her afternoons, with the occasional break to rest. She's not in perfect health herself, and it's showing more than ever.
Though in most cases she just seats herself off to one side until her strength rebuilds, there have been one or two incidents in which she has very nearly collapsed and required assistance.
If this upsets her, she shows no sign of it, at least not in the moment.

The Garden

Sina's early mornings to lunchtime are spent planting, trimming, and checking the progress of her various charges. They're starting to bud, which concerns her somewhat since frost is still very much a problem, but some coaxing (and perhaps the tiniest use of Keeper magic) keeps things moving along in a healthy and otherwise undisturbed manner.

She can be found here in the evenings as well, sitting outside her tent, sometimes with Nahariel, wrapped in a blanket and enjoying a cup of tea. She's come to think of the garden as home, it being the greenest place in Skyhold.

Elsewhere

There are times Sina can be encountered with her basket of herbs, making deliveries to the various offices and people requesting medicinal teas, or just in transit from one place to another. It's actually quite rare to find her inside the Keep itself, as the stone enclosures make her nervous, but she does have to pass through every so often.
Hippie.

Comments

Healing Tents

[meds4sale]

The nice thing about being a seller of medicines was that it made you innocuous enough not to be a threat, and useful enough not to get immediately ejected from anywhere if you showed up unexpectedly.

His reason for visiting the healing tents was not entirely altruistic. It wasn't even for business, though that was a handy enough excuse.

Mostly he was just curious and wanted to poke around.

"Pardon the intrusion," he said, bowing mostly out of habit. "I am looking for a healer."

[eolasemah]

Sina has a scarf over her mouth to protect her from a mild bug that's been going around, but she pulls it down when she's addressed, offering a pleasant smile. "I may be able to help," she says, "though if it's something serious I won't be of much use."

[meds4sale]

"No, no. Nothing like that," he assured, raising his head.

"I have only been told - " repeatedly, for that matter, "- that my wares would be of use to the healers."

He smiled.

...That is to say, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly and his fixed, unblinking gaze stayed completely the same. But it was an attempt.

"You see, I am a medicine seller."

[eolasemah]

"Oh."
Sina's smile is polite, if caught a bit off-guard. She can't help but find the man a bit unnerving, but there are others who have that in common with him, so he shouldn't take it personally.

"...perhaps," she replies, "can I see what you have?"

[meds4sale]

Sina wouldn't be the first to be put off by his uncanny expressions.

"You are most gracious," he said in that soft, even monotone of his and stepped past the threshold of the tent.

Picking a spot that was reasonably out of the way, he set his heavy medicine box down and left Sina to her own devices as he gradually unpacked the contents of the bottom-most drawer.

One by one he laid them out - strange bottles, paper packets of powder, canisters of creams and poultices, small sheafs of medicinal herbs and roots. There seemed far too much to fit in a single drawer, but if she looked over, he never seemed to open any other, nor did it ever seem to empty.

[eolasemah]

Though she's still growing accustomed (and likely always will be) to life outside her clan, Sina has learned not to stare and to simply take people at face value. Especially humans.
She peers over to see what he's doing, and makes a small sound of recognition. "Oh-- Nari mentioned you," she explains, "...my clan-sister. Are these the things she told me about?"

[meds4sale]

Clan-sister.

That rang a bell. And then he remembered the elven woman who'd come seeking a remedy for another with a shard embedded in her chest.

"You must be Sina," he said as recognition dawned.

helo can i be here too :3

[nadasharillen]

"Sina?" comes a call from around the side of the tents, immediately affirming his guess. Shortly thereafter, that same elven woman rounds the corner, emerging with a familiar packet in hand. "You about ready for--oh!" Nari's eyes widen slightly with surprise, and then immediately brighten in welcome. "Medicine Seller. I'm glad you've met." She'll nod her head respectfully.

"I was going to pull some water for tea and the medicine--would you like some as well?"

Pause. Grin.

"Tea, I mean."

[eolasemah]

Sina is a bit surprised by the sudden interaction, but breaks out in a grin when Nari abruptly appears.
"That's me," she confirms to the Medicine Seller, "I take it you two have already met."

[meds4sale]

He lowered his head in turn Nahariel. It was nice to see a familiar face. And that twice confirmed that Sina was, indeed, Sina.

"Tea would be very welcome. Thank you."

The weather was still quite cold this far up in the mountains and the Medicine Seller never passed down hospitality.

"Has the medicine had a beneficial effect?"

[nadasharillen]

While building the fire up a bit to bring the tents' cauldron of water back to a boil Nari keeps her head cocked toward the conversation so she can hear Sina's answer. She'd thought her clansister's breathing sounded a little clearer at night, but Nari wasn't sure whether or not that was only because she wanted very much for that to be the case.

[eolasemah]

Of course. Sina hadn't thought to put two and two together, but it makes sense that the new herbs Nari gave her would be from him. She smiles, a little bashfully, at having been so obtuse. "I think so," she says, "I feel a bit less pressure, if nothing else."

[meds4sale]

The Medicine Seller gave a small nod. There hadn't been much he could offer - if he knew a safe way for getting the shard out, his own hand would presently be free of the occasional green glow.

"I am glad to hear it. Your clansister mentioned that you have skill with herbs?"