maybe that makes me a fool

”Given the amount of trouble you’ve gotten into since I’ve known you alone, I wouldn’t blame him either,” she informs him, raising her eyebrows right back and grinning. Still, she listens with practiced focus as he explains about his hand, turning it this way and that, testing the tendons in his wrist and seeming satisfied, in the end, by his response. ”Alright. Well, it’s only been a few days since it happened. If it starts to impact you day to day, I’ll see if I can heal it with magic to speed things along.” She might have let him go at that point, but the way he speaks keeps her hand in his, Vai giving it a gentle squeeze. ”Sometimes, we can’t be,” she says softly. ”The same as the people who loved you couldn’t be there for your trial, or a lot of what you went through. Sometimes you can only be there afterwards, and that can be the more important part. And you’re always there for them after.” vervain I am always on your side