>>5199239>>5199245"Your hands are cold." You tell Farnese her fingers feel as icy as her real self.
"I have been holding a torch for this entire inquiry. It's not my fault your body is-"
"Hot?"
"This is why I despise you." Her eyes squint at you as she lets you drop off her lap.
"Whatever... Just lend me your energy, I know the way down to the cage. Unless you also consider healing to be evil and pagan, in which we case you should really burn some sacred relics."
"How do you know you will not suck me dry out of my energy?"
"I trusted you enough not to kill me, the least you can do is offer the same benefit of the doubt to me."
"...Very well." She pressed her hands on your blisters and waited for you to do your thing. She didn't have to press that hard, though...
Taking a few deep breaths, she sees your burn marks diminish greatly to the size of pink pimples as the See leader squeals in shock.
"Ah!" Just before your ankle could get properly healed, she recoiled with unseen speed, still seeming as energised as she was before helping you out.
"What happened? I know it usually is tiring, but it doesn't tend to hurt. Do you feel any different?"
"N-No... I just..." It seems Farnese just got scared of the feeling of having her od pool slurped on, but she seems completely unphased by it. Have you gotten better at this, or is Farnese's Od predisposed to magic?
"Well, if you had any doubts that magic was real, I'm here to prove you wrong."
"Get out of here before I whip you over your blisters!" Farnese starts whipping at your back muscles. While not as bad as the burns, her wacks still sting like hell... At least it's something to take the focus out of your bad ankle.
"There you are, friend." Serpico quickly appears as Farnese disappears inside her tent. "Sorry about leaving you alone with her, had to distract Azan or else I would have two higher-ups giving me lectures for disobeying their others. Come here, I'll place you back at your place."
Offering you his shoulder, Serpico guides you to the squared cage amidst the rocks and hands you some ointment to fix your burns.
"I'd look sunburnt at all times if it wasn't for this, pretty sure it works on actual burns too, go ahead. Don't think this will be the only time you and the commander will be getting some alone time." Serpico takes a look at your twisted ankle and with a precise crack, places it back where your joints were supposed to be.
"So how did it go with her? I was thinking of going in to see if you were ok, but I was hearing a lot of grunts on her end followed by yours, and thought it would be awkward to interrupt whatever was going on between the two of you..."
>About as well as it could possibly go.>Get your mind out of the gutter.>Is she usually this rough?>Why are you helping me?>What is it with you and Farnese, she told me you rejected her feelings for you.>How long until we get to Albion? 