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✦ * · ˚ Her nose—just as capable as the average tarkatan’s—had led her here. A dingy room, unimpressive and plain, with a single adjoining washroom. Following the sweet scent in the air, Kali enters the washroom to find a familiar visage. One that she still could not put a name too but familiar all the same.
The iron in the air grew heavier with each slow step. Kali came forward as if she were approaching a deer that would dart away at any sudden movement. Her “relationship” or lack thereof with this man never led to any warm encounters between them much to Kali’s dismay. The stranger’s guard seemed to always be up whenever she appeared and this encounter was no different. Even when battered and bleeding—with her hands pure of any wrongdoing or violence—he still deemed her a threat. It was almost endearing. She was flattered he thought her worthy of such caution. But she wasn’t here to hurt him.
Curious, she tilts her head as her eyes dance over the injuries he sported. And after a brief moment of pondering Kali gently commands him from the tub, dark eyes widening a fraction when he obeys. Wasting no time, she begins tending to his wounds: cleaning them with water and slathering them with salve before neatly bandaging him. His injuries are nothing too detrimental, after a few weeks most of these darkened bruises and swelled slashes would be fading without a single hint as to their presence, yet Kali can’t help but ask herself what had caused these wounds in the first place. Would her curiosity be met with answers? Scorn? …Only one way to find out.
Her companion beats her to it however, with an inquiry she’s sure she’s heard before.
❝ What do you want from me? ❞
A beat of silence. And then a smile. Kali wonders what she must look like. Crazed? Perhaps a tad deranged? She can only hope it doesn’t add to his suspicions. ❝ I want you to recover for one… ❞ her eyes find his and she holds his gaze, her smile unwavering as she says, ❝ and I want you to stop avoiding me for another. ❞ She giggles as she continues dressing his wounds, resisting the urge to sample the abundance of blood he was leaking out. ❝ I really don’t bite you know. Well…not unless you ask real nice. ❞