After Dragon informed the crew of the Dragonfly that they were pretty much free to roam the ship now instead of being confined to... somewhere, ANTIE-D turned to Rose.
"The door to Dragon's quarter's was damaged, as was the door to the galley. I would like to assist Nissa with any repairs. Oh. And I see you've lost the paperbag hat. You shouldn't need it anymore. We are far away enough from Luman now." ANTIE-D said casually, and then looked directly at Taran. "Due to the circumstances, your previous actions have been filed as necessary. However, desist from making further unauthorized commands." She intoned. And with that, she turned and walked the other way.
Rose looked at Taran questioningly, and he looked over at her. He chuckled and shrugged, which sent a huge shock of pain through his dislocated shoulder and broken wrist.
Seeing the look on Taran's face go from embarrassed to in pain, Rose remembered. She had been... almost killed?... by the strange gravity the ship had caused. She had severely broken ribs to prove it. And Taran was also in bad shape.
"You can help, you know." said Jaa.
"We are fine, as is Miss Neko." added Tuli.
"But if you let her-"
"blue can heal you both." finished Tuli solemnly.
Rose looked back and forth between the gwees. blue was completely silent. Maybe she knew how torn Rose felt about this. Her face twisted in an unhappy thoughtfulness, and she finally looked away from the gwees. She didn't like that they might be reading her thoughts as she puzzled this...
When she turned away from the gwees, her eyes locked with Taran's. Her face relaxed, and she heaved a big sigh- mixed with a little grumble.
"Well, we can't just wait to heal, now can we?" Rose said petulantly, looking down at the ground. "Especially if what Dragon said was true, and we will be going through rougher spots up ahead."
The gwees smiled at each other, and Niko rubbed against Rose's leg. But Taran, with his good right hand, lifted Rose's chin, forcing her to look at him again. His smile and the smile she could see in his eyes made it obvious he was extremely grateful, but he did not speak... could not speak... and after a few seconds, he took his hand back.
"Let's find some place... comfortable." Neko said, looking up at Rose. Only Rose and the gwees could understand her, but Taran did take a second look at the little black cat who had tried to cling to his head like a hook in a fish. Then they walked back over to Nerissa's display, and asked where they could find accomodations for the remainder of their trip to Lia Alit Iil-tia. Nerissa's display showed them a map and gave them some simple directions to some adjacent rooms for Taran and Rose to use. Rose, Taran, Neko and the gwees walked to the guest rooms. No one said or thought anything aloud during that walk.
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