"Yes, you will live," Anarya said frowning, "And there is no use in asking questions to why we didn't leave you to die. The least you could do is say thank you.
Just then the Healer hustled up to the bed carrying a bowl full of warm water with a few rags in it.
"Oh," He said smiling, setting the bowl down on a bed side table, "So I see our patient has awoken, I shall go fetch the poultice for I wanted to administer it while you were awake. We couldn't have you throwing the thing off in your sleep," He ran off to a table at the end of the room that held what looked like herbs and spices for different medicines.
Anarya leaned forward, picking up the rag in the water and put it across the stranger's forehead that was red with dried blood.
"Now, I wish to know who's company I am in before another word is uttered," Anarya said sitting back in her chair...
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Snow white! Snow White! O' Lady Clear! O' Queen Beyond the Western Seas!
O' light to us that wander here amid the world of woven trees!
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