So, tell me what happened.

She shook her head gently, “No. I like you for more than your books… I mean- I, um. You’re really nice and h-” she stopped herself from rambling on nervously. She took a breath and continued on, “No, I still do. It just he seems less like a person now. You know.” She shrugged as she took a sip of her tea.

Kaius never meant it more than a joke so he didn’t really take her response any more than that. Try at least. It somehow made him smile for a second. He nodded in response to Anders, he’s like a figure right now, who knows how he might shift the world again. 

She knew he was being kind, and she would be just as curious about Kirkwall if she were in his place. Unfortunately it was not her favourite topic. He could probably tell. Anyone with eyes could. Either way she wanted to share with him.

Kaius laughed, covering up some awkwardness they had between them, “That’s because I managed to pack in some book from home on my way out isn’t it?” He took his first sip from the cup of tea inhaled the aroma and sighed. Herbs and Tea always had an effect on him. He tried to imagine how Anders was like, hearing that he was a spirit healer too. “Used to? Not anymore I guess?” With the recent events, anyone’s opinion on him could easily shift, whether good or bad.

“Kaius, hm? I’m Anwyn,” she offered with a nod, “I was just keeping out of the way for the day, watching people and occasionally bothering them. And I think the clinic may be somewhere around here, among all the houses and such. I can point you towards it, if you like?”

Kaius fidgeted with his fingers, giving an embarrassed nod, “Yeah, that would be great...” He waited for her to either give directions or lead the way, but he found it rather odd, what she was doing. “Um, do you.. enjoy it? Keeping out of the way and watching people and.. bothering them, I mean.”

Curious? About her? She hardly was mysterious enough or interesting enough for someone to be curious about . Perhaps he really wanted to know about Kirkwall. That was it, Kirkwall, it always leads back to those events. Her lips pursed subconsciously and she let out a tiny sigh as she recalled her time in the tower. Should she start at her arrival? Gloss over it? Or just give him the nitty gritty?

See, it was that face again. She always made a face when Kirkwall was mentioned, Kaius noticed, and he wasn’t too sure if he should pry anymore. But he looked up when she started to speak, and shook his head in response to him. He learnt everything from home and his mother, and had the freedom to walk around at least. His face contorted with concern and his ears drooped down, how bad was the Circle? It seemed like a total nightmare. He wrapped his fingers around the cup tightly, listening to her story from the past.

Kaius hesitantly returned the gesture by squeezing back before he felt the warmth leave his hand. “No, no it’s.. It’s okay.” He closed his empty hand and rubbed the back of his neck. Maybe it was what the humans do sometimes. Even though he spent all his life with them the Wardens are different. He’ll keep telling himself that’s the reason, but.. well.. The silence lifted up between them like the smoke rising from their tea. “Um... May I ask you a question..?” Kaius suddenly brought up, pulling back out the nagging question he had since last time they met, but also reminding him of how they parted. He paused before finding the courage, “What happened in Kirkwall? For you.. I mean. If you don’t want to answer that’s.. that’s fine really. I just.. I was just curious, I guess.. about you,” He shut himself up, forcing himself to meet her eyes in case he said something wrong, at least he’d know. 

He said she wasn’t a burden, was he sure? She watched his face instead of their hands. He closed his eyes as he healed. His face looked peaceful yet inquisitive as he did it. She found herself smiling and anticipating the opening of his blue eyes. She felt the coolness of his touch, it stung at first but it soothed the overall pain of the burn. As he healed he muttered words she did not understand.

Seeing that he’s done his job, Kaius nodded and let the magic slip away from his hand, pulling the cups of tea towards them. He felt a shift in her hand as her fingers curled over his own. His face started to heat up, avoiding her gaze while his red tinted elf ears fidgeted involuntarily. This was.. um, new. His mind was racing, just like his heart but he doesn’t know what to feel or think. Maybe he shouldn’t think at all.  And so he just left it at as it, feeling her hand in his, gentle, and warm. compared to his cold hands from healing. To what seemed like ages, which was less than a few seconds, Eira asked about the Elvish, distracting him away. 

The Songs of the Creators: Elvhen Edition

She saw the slight look of irritation on her face, this caused her face grow warm and contort into one of guilt. She felt herself going an even more deep crimson as he grabbed her wrist. The contact wasn’t unwelcome, his hand felt nice on her skin. She wondered what his arms felt like- wait, no. She shook the thought from her head immediately.

Kaius shook his head as a corner of his mouth tugged up slightly, “You’re not a burden to me,” before he started to feel awkward, his eyes quickly darted back to her wrist, closing them as he directed his energy towards his hand, the glow growing brighter as he felt the icy chill. He tried to distract himself with it from his thoughts, why’s her face red? Did she have a fever as well? He didn’t know what she was thinking, And he was always a worrier. He rested his hand down and covered her burn. “Dareth. Shala asa, Mythal,” he muttered as he ran his fingertips across the burn, seeing it slowly lighten. “There, anything can happen if you ignore it for too long,” still unconsciously holding onto her wrists, he looked up to ask, “Does it still hurt?”

Of course he had heard her, her gasp wasn’t very quiet.  She went red then held up her wrist. “Just a little burn nothing major.” She chuckled. She never really got hurt, and when she did she never aloud someone else to heal her. She didn’t want to be a burden. She could of just lied and let him think she was unscathed, the healed herself when she went home. For some reason she showed him the small burn. “I can wrap it up later. You should just enjoy your tea.” She added a smile to put emphasis on the fact she was fine.

Kaius’ bottom lip pursed out as he stared at her burn, turning into a sigh, “Creators.. Here,” he instinctively pulled Eira’s wrist closer to him. He didn’t even give it a second thought and lifted his free hand over it, a cool, icy glow starting to form. But he somehow looked up and stopped himself before showing some kind of politeness. “Um... Sorry, may I?” He dipped down his head as he asked, “You, uh, said the tea needed to sit anyways, so.”

No, I'm sorry, it only occured to me to read the FAQ after i sent that. Let me try again. Hahren, how would you say "I missed you" in elvish? Ma serannas.

The bubbling sound hit her ears, so she quickly stood to make the tea. They had no pot so she simply put the leaves into the cups. She carefully poured the water in, watching as the steam rose off the water. Apparently less careful and more clumsy she spilt some on her wrist, letting out a small gasp as the water burned her turning her skin a red tone. She had hoped Kaius hadn’t heard her small gasp or witnessed the momentary clumsiness.She quickly pulled her sleeve down and carried the cups to the table. “You’ll need to let it steep a bit.” She said pulling a chair up to sit across from him.

“Do you need help..?” He asked as he turned around while Eira headed to the water boiling. She was already on her way and he’d probably fumble with it anyways so Kaius bit his tongue and refrain to go out and help her. His hands held on to the chair backing, looking at her, dazing off. He tried to hide the smile breaking out, he hasn’t made many friends around yet, and it’s quite sad but it wasn’t a... bad thing. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard her gasp. “Are.. you okay?” Kaius stood up immediately, almost tripping out of the chair. He helped her with one of cups as she made her way back. “What happened? Did you hurt yourself?” His eyes darting around, trying to figure out where she’d hurt herself as he asked.

As he sunk down she couldn’t help but blush deeply, he was cute. “Tea and herbs are the same thing really, making tea is similar to poultices.” When he spoke of Kirkwall she realized he misconstrued her words. “It wasn’t that there wasn’t a shortage of people that needed heeling.” She looked down with deep sadness, “It’s that in the tower there were very few people we were aloud to heal.” The though disgusted her, made her feel ashamed. She should of tried to help those who needed it, but she cowered away safely in the circle.

“Except they taste better,” he grinned, curious of the tea leaves she have. Kaius tried to process what she meant by that, not allowed? Was there such a thing to even happen? But once again he puts it on hold, seeing her mood change at the thought of it. He lit up when she have indeed started on the books, laughing as she admitted about the Elvish, “Well, some elves don’t know much Elvish too, if uh.. it makes you feel better.” He shrugged his shoulders up, dismissing her embarrassment, “And um, well, I guess it doesn’t really help when the only English in it is my own.” He let out a nervous chuckle, some older notes were probably wrong too. “But I mean.. yeah, if you ever need help I’ll be.. uh, around. In these caves. I guess.” He turned around thinking he heard the water bubble, before glancing to Eira to make sure he wasn’t delusional from just really wanting some tea.

The sound of her laugh followed his statement almost immediately. “Tea is relatively easy to make if you have the time.” she paused, “I- um. Could show you sometime.” She smiled at him but then quickly looked down at her feet. Being around him after the cheek kiss incident made her nervous. Especially since there was that chance he would bring it up She smiled at his little hand wriggle, she in return wriggled her fingers. “I know what you mean, although there was less work in Kirkwall.” She added a mental somehow to that, for the city was overrun with refugees and sick. The chantry unfortunately refused to help them all without a price, which tended to be too steep for most.

Kaius shook his head in dismay, “I may know herbs but tea is not my forte..” He glanced at her when she offered and sunk even deeper into the table if that was elfly possible, hiding his smile, “Yeah, that... would be nice..” and left it at that. “Really? And I though the people here were already healthy enough and well and um, not constantly dying.” Kirkwall, he remembered that when she came over to borrow his books then, still unsure to ask for the sake of his curiosity or whether to ask at all. And so he just went on to a lighter question, “How are the books? Wait- I, um, if you’ve actually started on them..”

She glanced over her shoulder smiling sweetly at the sight of him, “We don’t but I bring some. Would you like a cuppa?” She asked before hopping down and wandering over to where she hung her satchel. It took a little bit of her feeling around in the bag to find the pouch of tea she had made. Holding it up at him and waving it around to show him she did indeed have tea.

It had been a few day since Eira had seen Kaius, she had semi been avoiding him due to embarrassment. Who gives someone they just met a kiss, even on the cheek? An idiot that was who. She had seen his name on the Clinic board and was thankful they had yet to work together. Until today that was. Once again they had been busy enough to avoid conversation, but suddenly there was a lull in patients.

Kaius rested his eyes, almost falling asleep until he heard a shift on the table and voice he recognised very clearly. He peaked up to see Eira sitting on the table with her back facing his side, almost immediately sitting up straight again, unconsciously smiling, “Oh, um.. I- ..Hi.” He knew they were at the clinic together today but he haven’t actually seen her around until now with all the patients this morning. “It’s fine, really, just got a lil rusty since I left Anderfels, I’ll probably take a while to get used to it..” He muttered and shook his head but he could feel his mind going soft and plopped his head back down.