Pretend this is real for a while

vervain Vervain shuffled back a few feet as Remi shifted, blinking at the sudden sight of him all jumbled up on the ground, mittens and all. Carefully sinking down to sit beside him as he spoke, she frowned in concern. What he had to say was... worrying, even she had to admit that. She had seen his mother with that lantern, seen it with her own two eyes, but this was... Ludo was tormenting Remi and it might well be driving him to madness. "It's just us here," she said softly, slipping an arm around him to draw him close against her side. "It could have been a trick of the light, or the memory of this place... or Ludo." She couldn't lie to him, after all. Frowning out into the cold forest, Vai let out a long sigh and reached up to smooth a hand through Remi's curls. As she did she felt a familiar tingling warmth in her fingertips, frowning - he wasn't injured, so what exactly was she healing?