Nix sat next to the alchemist's bed; he had held her reddish-brown hair out of her face while Scarlett dressed the wound.
"Why are you still sitting with me?" Yena's single eye watched him; it was dark brown like chocolate.
Nix cringed inside at the weak sound of her voice. It sounded exactly like someone who was dying. Everyone liked Yena, but she had no family, and her only close friend was in a bed a few feet away. He had stayed because no one else came. "Well... I got a bit of a crush on you."
"It's a persistent poison Nix, with no antidote." Yena's lips curved in a smile. "You don't have to say something like that."
Nix shrugged and squeezed her hand. Yena had hit her target from a hundred meters away, despite having an arrow sticking out of her shooting eye. Anyone else would have stayed down and died. "Fine, I'm here on someone else's behalf."
/Inferno: Ducky: Can you push them in dragon eggs, Nix? Like you did with Del Tali?
The start of a multi-chapter ark into the Snakes Den. Thanks for reading.