[ Dawn pats her hips as if expecting to find the fanny pack she typically wears, in which a few well-balanced snacks — hardboiled eggs, carrot sticks, apple slices, peanut butter crackers, granola bars, etc. — are always kept in the event of just such occasions as this. It's reflex, mostly, the part of her that's been conditioned to be nurturing and maternal, yet it's disappointing nonetheless to be reminded that she's currently empty-handed, save for the flower she was handed before entering the woods.
She kneels by the woman, inspecting her the way someone might do a long lost hiker who's been surviving in a cave eating insects and bark. ]
I don't have anything. Can you stand?
[ She's felt... strange ever since entering these woods, herself, but hopefully that won't matter. ]
ring around the rosey
[ Dawn pats her hips as if expecting to find the fanny pack she typically wears, in which a few well-balanced snacks — hardboiled eggs, carrot sticks, apple slices, peanut butter crackers, granola bars, etc. — are always kept in the event of just such occasions as this. It's reflex, mostly, the part of her that's been conditioned to be nurturing and maternal, yet it's disappointing nonetheless to be reminded that she's currently empty-handed, save for the flower she was handed before entering the woods.
She kneels by the woman, inspecting her the way someone might do a long lost hiker who's been surviving in a cave eating insects and bark. ]
I don't have anything. Can you stand?
[ She's felt... strange ever since entering these woods, herself, but hopefully that won't matter. ]