An Ignoble Tale (Act 1.1)

"Well, if you can't figure those out, I have some herbs to help with that," she said, looking to him.

"Eh, why not." Audren shrugged.

Violet nodded and went to the other side of the cave, pulling a basket from behind a rock. She grabbed a vile and a small leaf, and opened the vile. She poured a bit of the liquid onto the leaf and walked over to Audren, gently dabbing the liquid onto his burns.

"Ow, ow, ow."

Audren winced a few times as she applied the liquid onto the burns.

"Sorry," she said, trying to be as gently as possible.

"No, it's fine." He said, gritting his teeth a little.

"This should cool it down after a bit," she told her as she finished up. She left the leaf on one of the burns. She closed the vile and placed it back in the basket, then grabbed a few more leaves. She pressed these gently to a few more of the more severe burned areas, leaving them there.

After that was over, Audren sighed in relief.

"Much better...thanks Violet. I didn't screw that up, right?"

She shook her head, her ears twitching a bit. "Not at all."

"Oh good."

She sat down on one of the rocks, looking around the dim cave.

Audren looked outside into the clearing.

Violet's ears twitched in thought.

"Hm." He scratched his chin in thought.

She looked up at the cave ceiling.

Audren once again, walked outside and started pacing back and forth.

She got to her feet and went over to one of the baskets under the rock shelf, setting it atop the shelf and rummaging through it a bit.

He was still pacing.

Her ears twitched a bit and she stopped, frowning a bit. She went behind a rock and grabbed a mouse that was trying to chew its way through another basket.

Audren stopped and snapped and make a small flame appear, which landed on his boot.

"Oh, shoot."

"Don't you do that," Violet told the mouse, heading outside. She walked across the clearing, setting the mouse down in some bushes. It scrambled off, quickly disappearing in the underbrush.

He quickly started brushing the flame off, hoping it wouldn't catch his already maimed sleeves on fire.

Violet looked over to Audren, raising an eyebrow slightly.

Audren suddenly went into a casual pose, looking over at her.

She waved a bit to him.