THE ASHFATHER - AURIAN
Tahlia, the herbalist, followed Aurian to his office. He could feel her eyes on him every time they landed there. She could feel the questions she had after witnessing the interaction between him and his son. And he didn’t know how to answer those questions. He didn’t want to answer them.
He had thought they would talk about the patients, who had managed to survive another night. The healer said they weren’t doing as well, though. The medications weren’t going to last forever, and if they didn’t figure out how to heal them, they would lose every person in that room. That was the entire reason he had arrived at her room that morning, knocking on the door so early. To see if she had found anything in the books she had received.
The fact that it hadn’t been long enou
