Impossible -- but true: she was alive. She shouldn't have been. She knew she shouldn't have been. With Bahn bending over her now, smiling despite the knife in his shoulder, Thiele still couldn't believe it. The pain was really starting now - a pulsing radiation that spread up from her thigh and down from her shoulder. She tried to tell Bahn that she could do it herself, she tried to tell him that all she needed was a little earth and she would be all right -- but her throat was constricting with something like sickness, something like panic. She couldn't rightly fight not to scream and speak at the same time. And so the only thing she managed was a weak batting at his hands while he whispered soothing little things that she didn't actually hear...
And then warmth spread from where he touched, and the same warmth chased back the fiery throbbing. Her head cleared. She blinked, then sat up. Had she been laying down? She had been? "Let me," she said, reaching for his shoulder almost immediately. But almost immediately, Bahn backed away from her. Apparently, it was unfitting to accept healing from the one you just healed. She wondered how Bahn did it. He must have been in pain; she certainly was. How could he concentrate through all that to get her put back to rights? It was an amazing thing to her. She said her thanks in low, fervent tones, then squeezed his hand before nimbly darting across the room.
Tanist looked all right, but she eyed him carefully anyway. And when she was sure, she finally settled her shoulder and her back against his side. "Thank you, Eragos," she said -- and this time, her voice was far softer. Eragos had just murdered someone. A couple someones, if Thiele didn't miss her mark. Surely they would have murdered Eragos -or herself - if he hadn't struck first. But it was still... difficult. He did it with such ease. Such practiced ease.
Very difficult.
Her arm snaked instead around Tanist's waist - more for comfort than for anything else. "And thank you for the light," she whispered up at him. "We wouldn't have done very well without it. We wouldn't be standing here now without it."