Delphine
Delphine grinned, "I do. My mother was a botanist, and she studied how to create hybrid plants and how to breed the very best quality out of a plant series... and of course, medicinal value." Though she still was not sure of all the plants here. But she doesn't think that Tala needs to know that.
"Safety, I think? The world outside the walls was... dense forest and nobody had gone there before. Eventually we did expand, but... it did not go very well, I think?" She didn't remember more than one visit to the Outpost. One time in the forests beyond the walls.
She nodded slowly, "Yeah. But now, all I can do is..." If Tala caught sight of Delphine's arms and legs, she'd find crisscrossing scars, but the woman leaned to claim a relatively sharp knife, she'd used it just that morning to cut herbs. Drawing the knife across her palm, humming softly to herself as if this was all normal.
The knife was placed aside, as Delphine held her now-bleeding hand out towards Tala, so that she could watch the cut slowly knit together again. "I was a healer back home, and... I haven't got quite the same power here, but I can still heal." She nodded as the woman explained, magic was a bit of a fairytale in her land.
She wasn't sure she could imagine that.
"Safety, I think? The world outside the walls was... dense forest and nobody had gone there before. Eventually we did expand, but... it did not go very well, I think?" She didn't remember more than one visit to the Outpost. One time in the forests beyond the walls.
She nodded slowly, "Yeah. But now, all I can do is..." If Tala caught sight of Delphine's arms and legs, she'd find crisscrossing scars, but the woman leaned to claim a relatively sharp knife, she'd used it just that morning to cut herbs. Drawing the knife across her palm, humming softly to herself as if this was all normal.
The knife was placed aside, as Delphine held her now-bleeding hand out towards Tala, so that she could watch the cut slowly knit together again. "I was a healer back home, and... I haven't got quite the same power here, but I can still heal." She nodded as the woman explained, magic was a bit of a fairytale in her land.
She wasn't sure she could imagine that.
Let me make you smile, darling.
