"Where's your brother?" Veena hadn't even looked away from her work - updating notes about riders who were under her care and double checking them against what had been written by the other healers - to speak to her daughter who was nose deep in records that had been unearthed for her. Taiena snapped to attention, clutching the precious notes tightly enough that anybody who was even slightly particular about how things were kept would have had a stroke over it. "Vaikal? He was checking on the plants we have on my ledge," and according to Khandjith, the man was still there. Nervously so, as she could feel the intensity of her lifemate's stare. But her weyr had enough sunshine that such little projects did well on it, and while not enough to keep them fully stocked, in an emergency they did.
It had been a task he'd been put to some time ago, and it was likely all the blood from changed bandages that had made him particularly
diligent in the task that day. Veena's eyes narrowed enough that her daughter simply sighed, curling the pages she'd been reading and setting them on the woman's desk. "You need him, then? I can have Khan-" she was cut off by her mother frowning. "No.
No." there was a firmness in her voice that should have cut off the discussion, but Taiena just shook her head as she stood up. "Fine.
I'll go get him. Does he need to come back with anything?"
Veena waved her daughter off with a hand. "He knows what I sent him for. Make sure he doesn't forget it, please," to anybody else, she would have sounded on the serious side, but she could tell it was at least not a rush. Which meant she didn't have to
run across the Weyr to grab her brother.
It seemed that visiting time was over as well, and Taiena joined the herd with little issue, offering the young man who held the door open for her a smile as she stepped through it. Though the smile faded into a brief confusion when he spoke up. Tomorr- Oh! Visiting hours! She'd certainly left with the group, so it made sense that he thought she was visiting someone. Goodness, she
had been, technically. "Oh! Yes, I would hope so. I'd hate to see my mother send another healer packing," Veena
was a strict woman, and anybody who wasn't on the ball was quick to correct themselves or get gone. "Visiting a family member, or...?" she trailed off, finishing her question with a slight incline of her head.
