open | with the sound of my heart

[sulahnan]

WHO: Athessa, Madi, Lucien, Skull, and YOU!!
WHAT: catch-all
WHEN: mostly Satinalia and later
WHERE: Kirkwall and The Gallows
NOTES: post-murderhaus h/c is gonna go here

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[justashotaway]

Laura watches, at one point reaching out a hand to assist, then pausing halfway there. Athessa is capable. She might be slightly slower than usual, but she is far less unwell than Laura'd originally feared. And soon her gift is sitting between them, unwrapped.

"It is a box," she agrees, her upper arms pressing in tight against her sides, as though that might keep a swelling sense of satisfaction from overtaking her. "The sisters asked me to cut wood for them. They let me keep some to carve."

[sulahnan]

Athessa keeps smiling at it, running her fingers over the etching and the joins and just generally admiring the work that went into it.

"Well done you, Laura, this is really lovely," she says. "Did you use—"

She nods at Laura's hands. Did you use the claws for it?

[justashotaway]

"The claws? Yes." There are places she's hesitant to mention them, but a room filled with unwell members of Riftwatch isn't one. (They aren't supposed to be opposed to a compatriot with claws--and if they are, Laura doesn't doubt she can take them.) "And you must open it. Let me help."

She wraps her hands around the bottom half of the box so Athessa needs only one hand to pull off the top. It isn't difficult to open, but it's just snug enough that it requires two working arms to separate the halves.

[sulahnan]

With Laura's help she opens the box and when she sets the lid aside she smiles at the little sachet of elfroot inside the box. Confirmed to be what it is by smell first, then by peeking into the bag.

"Ah, just what the healer ordered," she jokes, since Colin actually did tell her to employ the use of elfroot for her shoulder while it heals.

"Thank you, Laura. I love it. Now if you'll just hold your arms out kinda like this for me, I'm gonna hug you."