The two of them going hunting/foraging for food together and kind of splitting up, but staying within shouting distance of each other just in case

Aldafa has canonly made Muriel squeak a total of one (1) time, and it was because she accidentally snuck up on him and he was exhaling just enough to make him make a surprisingly high pitched noise

(Hearing Aldafa laugh like that made him blush but when she started going red just from laughing it made him laugh as well. Queue the laughter paradox, neither of them could stop for quite a few minutes)

They’ll sometimes go full days without actually like... talking, just because they don’t really need to. They just know each other’s rhythms and habits by now, so if they do talk it’s mostly just a “careful” or “come eat” murmured to each other

They don’t always sleep in the same bed, Aldafa is extremely sensitive when it comes to things touching her in her sleep so if Muriel ends up rolling over or something she’s almost immediately Wide Awake. She’s always sure to stay close enough to him to hear if he starts having a nightmare, though.

Blessed be the image of Inanna rolling around with Aldafa’s wolf-dog familiar, Svelto. The two of them would be inseparable and equally teasing about their magic users.

So like, Muriel and Aldafa knew each other before the plague. They were almost A Thing, but then people started getting sick and Aldafa felt that it was her duty as someone who practiced medicine to go and try to help find a cure.

Asra probably brought her back because honestly seeing Muriel go from distant and hurt from the arena to absolutely heartbroken in his own quiet way over Aldafa’s loss was just... it hurt him, a lot, but he knew that Muriel would never be as crazy as Asra to bring Aldafa back.

Respectfully, fuck the game I make my own lore (as you do). Aldafa probably reconnected with Muriel almost as soon as she was strong enough to wander into the forest alone. She’s definitely changed (her hair is longer now, she talks more, it’s so easy to make her smile) but like, the moment she sees Muriel it’s an almost instant recognition of “oh, I know this person” even if she doesn’t have any actual memories of him in particular. She doesn’t even recognize his face or anything about him, it’s just a vague feeling of familiarity.

Imagine her feet just kind of taking her to Muriel’s hut the first time she’s properly alone in the forest. It’s just so natural to her, and she knows that Asra told her that she lost her memories and all but she’s not sure with how familiar this feels.

She shows up when he happens to be gone and she knows it’s kinda rude but she just kind of walks into the hut and. Oh, that pile of furs seems very comfortable and this excursion has taken more out of her than she thought

Muriel comes back to find her asleep, and he’s confused and hurt and concerned to see her there, doubly so when she’s not already waking up like she used to when he walked in.

But it’s like starting over, but not... her habits with Muriel are still ingrained into her mind, her body and hands moving on their own while they move around the hut and honestly, she can’t remember being this relaxed, like ever

Imagine her forgetting him, five or six times as she wanders into the forest again and again. Until Muriel finally gives her one of his little memory myrrh pouches, figuring that there’s no reason to hide from her. She might have changed some, but she’s still Aldafa.

Imagine Muriel helping Aldafa regain the strength that she lost to the plague. Helping her with exercises, joining her when she gets frustrated because she instinctively knows that she’s supposed to be stronger than this but she’s not and it’s wrong.

(Imagine Muriel holding her when something finally breaks and she starts crying because since she woke up with her memories gone everything has felt kind of wrong. It’s so hard not to tell her everything, but he’s heard Asra’s warnings with her memories, and he refuses to hurt her)

And, just imagine the way Aldafa’s face lights up when Muriel returns her cloak and her bow and her daggers and her other personal things to her. She’s missed them without even knowing they were hers. Her aim has gotten a bit rusty, but she’s so excited to have her things back, to start feeling more whole again, that she absolutely doesn’t mind going out right now (”yes, like right now”) to train herself back up to what she once was.

But at the beginning of Muriel’s route... Aldafa comes back to the shop after a long day at the palace, ten kinds of emotionally drained, and sees blood. By this time she’s recovered completely, finally back to the state that she was before, and so when she sees Inanna pacing around inside, also covered in blood? She turns around and is instantly sprinting through the city to get to Muriel.

When Lucio threatens them, Muriel himself is kind of startled when Aldafa snarls at the ghost, looking like she’s about to murder. (The only thing that’s stopping her is Muriel’s current state. If she didn’t need to get him safe and healed, she would be hunting a goat ghost through the forest, not the other way around)