Snippet #1568295

As soon as her concoctions and apothecary's equipment were all sorted, labeled (in case she fell unconscious and someone really needed something, which was honestly more a possibility in her paranoid mind than anything), and cleaned, Talae broke the tent with Fae's assistance and hauled it off to the supply cart. Never knew where you were going to end up after a battle these days. She passed Alistair and gave him a small nod, to which he returned a smile. That might have been it, but something struck her, and she swung to face him.

The words did not come immediately, but she figured he probably understood. If he didn't, he was patient about it all the same. "I don't like asking favors from strangers," she began, and he shook his head, but she stopped the inevitable 'we're not strangers, we're comrades' with a hand. "But this battle... it seems to me that it carries a more substantial risk of death than even those before it. I would... appreciate it if you could keep an eye on Faera for me. You can see more from the sky, overall.

"I'm not asking you to go out of your way or anything, just... if she's in the area."

Alistair nodded solemnly. "Of course." He didn't know how effective he would be at this, but at the very least he was going to offer her what peace of mind he could. A distraught Legionnaire was a less-useful Legionnaire, after all.

"Thank you." Talae didn't say that often, as she was not in the habit of asking for things, but it was perhaps inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Advancing to the forming lines, she picked Kisikoni out of the crowd, and Pel beside him when she got closer. What the hell was he doing here? He had to have woken no more than a couple hours ago, if that, since he had still been out when Fae checked that morning.

"Koni? They're letting you go?" But keeping back Beelzes and Qinn? That didn't make much sense, though suddenly Pel's presence did. "But with help just in case... hello, Pel." This was just odd. Talae had never actually seen Pel engage an opponent before, though she supposed this did not mean that she couldn't. Still, throwing a healing unit onto the front lines with the rest of them was practically begging for disaster to occur. Talae would try her best to avert that, but she had no idea what condition Kisikoni was actually in, though it was bound to be less-than-ideal. Adding a healer to that... they might need another person to cover her.

Well, there were bound to be enough of those, considering the formation they were going for here. Still... "Are you sure you're up to this?" She would never use so many words, but whatever had happened to him in the last battle, while effective, was also clearly debilitating, and it probably wasn't the wisest idea to be trying it again so soon, and she didn't even know if he got to choose whether or not it (whatever it was) happened in the first place. It was... worrisome? Yes, she supposed that was the best word for it.