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The long winter had forced Mephiti indoors, away from the foliage she was trying to learn all the properties of, but she had found that the tomes in the library provided almost as much information as her field studies. The season had not been spent idly, as the stacks of books hiding in her chambers could attest to--a stack she was currently adding to, as was obvious by the half-dozen books she was struggling to carry back to her room. Normally she didn't take so many, as they were large and heavy, but she didn't want to interrupt her studies to make another trip.

Mephiti's eagerness to learn would prove her downfall, as she tripped with an alarmed squeak over an upraised stone. Her burden put her off-balance and the two topmost books fell out of her arms to clatter noisily to the floor. Her small, furry ears pinned back at the noise as she staggered to a halt. She sighed as she knelt to place the rest of the books down in order to see if there was any damage to the two she dropped, wiggling her sore toes.

Mephiti started at the sound of an unknown voice, instinctively turning towards it--unfortunately, her legs got tangled within each other and the fallen books as she did so, and after a moment of wobbling, she fell onto her tail with a startled and most undignified squeak. "Ow," she whined, frowning and rubbing the offended appendage. After a moment she remembered that she wasn't alone in the hallway and let her tail fall away, an embarassed blush rising to her cheeks. "Oh, um, yes," she started, looking up abashedly at the older fey, "sorry. I'm a little, um, clumsy. I didn't disturb you, did I? I'm sorry if I did, I'm just--well..." Though she was hardly the most eloquent of her race even at the best of times, her inherent shyness tangled her tongue further. She gave a nervous chuckle and began gathering her books once more.

Mephiti's furred ears perked at the sound of her name, and she paused in her collection for a moment, head tilting to the side as she shot a smile up at the spider. "That would be me--are you ill?" Why else would one seek a healer? Her eyes immediately scanned the form in front of her, looking for any visible signs of illness. Hmm...the older fey looked pale, but then again so did most of the residents of the Moon Court.

"Not much, I'm afraid," Mephiti replied with a blush and an abashed duck of her head. "Although some of the books I've read mention pregnancy and the dealing with thereof, I've never had the chance to put any of that information into practice. I can certainly try, though!" Not words any patient should want to hear from a healer, one would imagine, no matter how good-natured or eager they might sound.

Mephiti ducked behind her now-organized pile of books with an alarmed "eep!" bushy tail coming around as if she meant to hide behind it. "Y-y-yes Ma'am!" she squeaked. "Um, w-won't you accompany me to my chambers? My notes are there, I could likely give you something to alleviate the, um...mood swings, and likely any other symptoms," she suggested meekly. She also wanted to be able to make some notes, and she could hardly do so while cowering in the hallway.

"I'll most certainly try," she assured the spider Fey before uncurling from her cower and hefting both herself and her healthy stack of books up. "It isn't far," she said, wobbling her way down the hall, trusting her patient to follow her--it really wasn't, as Mephiti stopped a few twists and turns later in front of a door. After fumbling with the knob for a moment she stumbled her way inside with a, "Please, do come in!" The room smelled faintly of a myriad of sweet herbs, and Mephiti took a calming breath before dropping the books on a table liberally littered with books and papers. "Feel free to have a seat!" she called, moving further into the room.

"Oh, I do apologize!" Mephiti exclaimed, coming back to the table with a stack of blank looseleaf paper and a pen--so much neater than ink and feathers, she made a mental note to ask her kithain to bring more--and settling in a chair near the pregnant fey. "When the weather was warm I spent my time outside, studying the local plants to see what, if any, medicinal qualities they had; since the weather turned I've been studying the books in the library to further my knowledge. I don't get out much otherwise," she admitted ruefully, scratching behind an ear with the pen before turning a smile back on the spider. "Oh, I didn't catch your name. You are...?"