Long Lost Leaves - part II

[Midge]

Aerin looked over at Haldis, who stood with her head almost perpendicular to the floor, softly calling up to her and Quickleaf's companions.

"Yes, Haldis is down here with us. She found me in the dungeons. I can only assume that she is talking to your other companions through the hole in the floor through which you fell. None of the others fell, though. Only you."

She watched Haldis a bit more, and, from the hole far above heard a distressed cry, "How is Quickleaf? Is he hurt much?"

Aerin looked at Quickleaf gently (though she knew it mattered not how she looked at him; he couldn't tell) and asked, "Did you hear that?"

All of a sudden, Haldis came over to tell them what she and the other companions had decided. Aerin was almost ashamed of her lack of healing knowledge in the presence of this woman's own, and Haldis was very dismayed that Aerin had neglected to inform her that Quickleaf's face was bleeding. She set Aerin the task of correctly caring for him now, and went back to inform the others of this new complication.