Oasis|Clan Char, Naurorod

[Devon]

Outside of Clan Char, a figured trudged slowly through the desert. It was a boy around the age of 13, he looked hungry, tired, and weak. His skin was red from all of the sun. Weakly he touched his Water sign and created water for himself to drink and to cool his skin a bit. He had been walking for days and sleep had finally caught up to him. He took another two steps before he fell to his face.

[Kender Bard]

Charanth was taking personal scout duty this day when he saw the figure in the distance. He'd stopped and just observed for a few moments, trying to get as much detail as the distance allowed. When the boy collapsed, however, he jogged over to get a closer look. Just a kid, he thought. I'll need to get him to Allura. Can't carry him on my own though.

He took a horn from his belt and blew three medium-length notes. After a bit of waiting, the two nearest scouts made their way over from their posts and helped Charanth bring the boy back to Char. Allura was sent for.

"Take him to my tent," she said quickly and followed the men as they carried him into the dark, cooler shade within Allura's tent. From there, she began to tend to his burns and signs of heat stroke.

[Devon]

The boy slept most of the time he was being worked on, occasionally he would toss and turn, murmuring under his breath. "Mama..mama come with me," he said lazily. Suddenly he opened his eyes and set up quickly, scared and not knowing where he was.

[Kender Bard]

"Easy," Allura murmured, trying to ease him back down. "You are in Clan Char. You've been through quite a rough time it seems. Just lay still for me, would you?"

[Devon]

The boy slowly nodded, catching his breath as he calmed down. "Clan Char? This is in Naurorod right?" he asked.

[Kender Bard]

"Yes it is," Allura affirmed as she changed the wet rag laying against his forehead for a fresh one. "And from the looks of things, you're not from around here." She glanced at his Water sign pointedly. "So why don't you tell me what has you wandering around in the desert? You could have died."

[Devon]

The boy looked down, cautiously covering the Water sign on his left forearm out of habit. "I...I ran away from Ekatiz," the boy said finally. "Was there a woman anywhere around me!?" he asked quickly.

[Kender Bard]

"Ekaitz?" Allura repeated, eyebrows raising. I don't believe that. Ekaitz is on the other side of the continent...

"No," she told the boy. "Would that be your mother?"

[Devon]

The boy nodded. "Then she didn't make it did she?" he asked quietly, uneasily shifting where he was laying.

[Kender Bard]

Allura sighed softly. "It's possible that you got separated and she is persevering elsewhere," she told the boy softly, though she thought it unlikely. "Can you tell me what she looked like? We'll have some scouts go out and look for her."

[Devon]

"She has red hair, um about..five feet tall maybe a little more, and she had green eyes," the boy told Allura. He was starting to get nervous, he didn't know much else about Narurod other than the things he had heard while he was traveling with the people from Grandisle.

[Kender Bard]

Allura nodded and handed the boy a cup of cool water. "Drink this," she instructed as she got up and left the tent momentarily to update Charanth on the situation. Shortly after, she returned. "I want you to stay in here and rest for the day."

[Devon]

The boy quietly sipped his water until Allura came back and informed him he'd have to stay and rest for a while. "Thank you ma'am," he said to the healer since he didn't know her name yet.

[Kender Bard]

"I am Allura," she told the boy. "And tell me, what is your name child?" She went back to his side and swept away the moist rag. He seemed to be getting cooler now.

[Devon]

"Marinus," the boy told her. He was feeling better now and a bit more talkative. "Are you the only healer for this village?"