Laus kept his eyes straight ahead, moving briskly but also as quickly as he could, hesitantly intent on keeping a balance between staying calm about his mission and channeling the fear involved in doing so into ignoring the muscle pain he slowly but surely was gathering. He hadn't kept track on when exactly he had left the Etain Desert, but even through his anxiety he could tell that it was irrational to continue to worry about any pursuers at this distance or time, especially since he hadn't heard anything that would remotely indicate he was being followed all this while he had strained his ears.
The movement had shifted the egg in his arms, and he felt the hair-thin fissures that had grabbed his gaze lightly press against his damp but drying shirt. He took a moment to readjust his careful but firm grip on the egg before picking up speed again.
Never mind the
parent, why was this egg abandoned to begin with? He swore it was bleeding when he lifted it from the water. Shouldn't something as great and fearsome as a nandi bear protect its young
even further if it were injured? The thought made him realise that it wasn't pursuit from an enraged parent he feared the most, but the fridge logic of what had caused the egg's desertion. At this rate, he couldn't wait to return to the keep. The anxiety over collecting his first companion
"the traditional way", as Senior Poyner had instructed him was more than enough for today. He just hoped that the task of healing this poor creature wasn't given to him as well, because all he had learned from his time in the library was how much more he
didn't know about the stream and its creatures.
He stopped abruptly, both because he suddenly had the idea of bandaging the egg in case it
was bleeding, and because he thought he had spotted a magi in the distance he recognised. But who? He strained to remember their name...
((ooc but that's your cue to talk to him!
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