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She sighs and shakes her head. "I will allow you to walk with me and maybe carry my things, but I'd rather walk, Kero. I'm a little afraid of riding anything... won't even get on a donkey."

"Estelle has something in common with you, I'm afraid." says Shar fetching her cloak and the older woman's shawl. "But you got back on your mount, she was too frightened to do so..."

She nods fondly at the dark furred lion. "Very well, that I will do, but no riding... there is no way I'm going to go riding anywhere unless I'm dead and gone and I have no desire to meet my maker just yet."

Shar laughs gently at her and helps her to fasten her shawl about her shoulders. "Lady Estelle, to listen to you you'd think you had one foot in the grave sometimes... I have it on perfect knowledge that your healer has declared you as fit as a young draft horse."

Estelle's brow knits in confusion. "But you're my..."

"Exactly..." says Shar, slipping her arm inside of Estelle's. "Kero, can you grab my pack... funny thing... I brought all this stuff down and didn't need a thing... Isn't nature wonderful..."

Shar rolls her eyes as they walk out the door. "I think you just like to poke people..." she can be heard grumbling as Kero's tail swings it shut behind him.

Fortuny sighs and eyes the cushions longingly. "Hopey, think you can help me move over there by the fire? This floor is not only hard but chilly."

"I cawn hewp. mama..." says Salunia softly.

"Yes you can, I need a blanket from the bed. Think you can manage it?" asks the lioness smiling fondly at the cub.

Shar steadies Estell over an uneven stretch in the path and smiles. "What is it, Talesian called you... Master Bumblebee... ye buzz and ye sting but no honey we see... he claimed... remember?"

"He threatened to write a song about it, too, if I recall... did he ever finish it?" she asks waving to a neighbor.

"Oh, he did, did he? Thant thing must be getting to epic lengths now... how many verses are there?" laughs the healer merrily.

She chuckles wisely. "For both of ye as I know for a fact ye foght back."

They stop at a cottage so Estelle can check up on one of her patients, waiitng outside for her to return, Kero asks Shar if she has been feeling alright. "Ye have been looking a little pale and I know all this stuff with Sira and me, couldn't have been helping ye much."

They make two more stops, one at another patient and the last at the bakery so Estelle can retrieve her dinner. Finally as they wait for her outside the bakery, Shar does admit she hasn't been sleeping very well.

"But I don't think it is you or Ai who were causing them, though I could feel the tension between the two of ye as clear as day. Ye really had me worried for a time there. I'm glad things have resolved themselves.... No, I keep having these nightmares... horrible ones... war scenes and the like... and I see people in them that almost look like peoplke I know... but not quite... and things never seem to be going well for them... I find myself calling out to them... screaming their names... but of course they can't hear me and when I do get a good look at them... they're not who I thought they were...." she says softly stuffing her arms into her sleeves.