Poor Scramble catches a cold. -- BKF
Temporal magic can do a lot of things. It can help with so much in the everyday adventures of life. What it can't do is prevent illnesses. Scramble could be forewarned, and therefore fore-armed of events in hir immediate future. Ze could dodge any material missile thrown hir way, or catch it if it was food.
Nobody had thrown something at Scramble for months, but ze caught a cold nevertheless.
The best remedy, no matter who had what powers, was rest and hydration. Which left Scramble dozing in a comfortable bed inside Wraithvine's portable tower. Which was a cozy house that had a herb garden, soft furniture, and interesting views.
Wraithvine had spent centuries on perfecting Get Better Soup, and could adjust the recipe according to the patient. There were, after all, a limited number of variations in the key recipe. Further, ze had the basic herb mixtures dried, powdered, and stored in hir tower for just such necessities.
Scramble was rarely one to let food escape hir sight, so it was telling that ze barely dragged hirself to the privy and back. Leaving the offering of soup untouched. That was very much a danger sign in a young being who'd grown up with food insecurity.
Wraithvine added herbal simples. Willowfine, feverfew, amongst other potions. Things to fortify and replenish. And, of course, ze worried.
Consultations with hir goddess reassured Wraithvine. Ereshkygal was not seeking to guide Scramble to the Lands of Shadow, and would therefore recover from the illness. That didn't stop the Eternal Wizard from fretting all the same.
Survival, after all, did not guarantee complete recovery. Diseases could wreak all kinds of destruction with the sufferers body.
Wraithvine and Bibrid could do much against such damage, but not all of it. Ze felt like ze could breathe freely only after Scramble's fever broke. And ze could only relax once ze was sure Scramble was making a full recovery.
Official adoption or not, Wraithvine cared for Scramble like ze was family.
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