"I managed," Araceli sounds too proud about that but well, there you go. "I didn't have to crawl on my belly to get away from all of you talking as if there are thick walls and not some flimsy scraps of cloth about us all the time." Or maybe that's just her because she breaks up her sleep throughout the day by habit, and has very good reason to not trust anyone talking outside of where she's sleeping at the moment.

Especially not about her. She can clap her hands over her ears and still it doesn't drown it out.

"Ah yes, resting. It is a bite from a wolf, not a shark." A giant wolf. Driven mad by lyrium but Ruby isn't herself and she's been to see her since so there are worse things to be bitten by, she'll fight Ruby's corner on this. "Slow is fine for you maybe, you would be happy if I was never on the roofs again I would wager."

Fight her on the magical healing and she'll cry. She could articulate it better when she was well but after lyrium being forced into her by the Venatori, after feeling so utterly not herself, after they took her for her stupid hand and the shard in it? No. The thought of it still makes her throat so dry it closes in on itself.