The first stirrings of a cool breeze across her book, tugging at the pages, were mistaken for the work of the air conditioning. The frigid blast that followed, spilling pages almost hard enough to slam the cover closed showed Sasha her error, and that something had gone gravely wrong. Up from her seat in the basement lounge she leaped, hurrying toward the hall. "Alison? Alison!"
"At least we know life still holds some few surprises for us. We may hope the rest are more pleasant." In the bathroom, the darker fae guides her lover to a seat, getting out gauze and materials to clean and disinfect the burns. "Do you need anything for the pain?"
"I believe that is the work of the wind," she replies, taking out a pill bottle and a paper cup, filling the latter with water and tipping a pill into the lid of the former. "Water first, or the pill?"
Sasha brings the cup carefully to Ali's lips, tipping it just a little and watching closely for the moment Ali has enough. She offers next the pill, followed by more water if Ali seems to want it.
"You are always welcome, my heart. I fear this will sting," she warns, before spritzing Ali's burned hands with an antiseptic. It isn't really something that can be done gently, much as they both might wish otherwise. She works carefully, but there is only so much modern medicine can do. "Darling? I will need to heal your hands, if you are willing. The damage is too much for bandages."
"The alternatives are the hospital, or the Nexus. Neither, I fear, would be prudent at present. I vow to be careful, and to permit no harm to befall you by my hand." Her voice is steady and calm, and her eyes seek Ali's; she won't force the spell on her wife unwilling, but she does hope to soothe the sidhe's fears enough to heal her.
She nods after another moment, a small detached part of her brain hoping that the shock holds out long enough for her to continue functioning. "Be swift then."
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"What if that goes wrong too?"
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