Just Stay Still

* * *

The woman ended up vomiting everything she had eaten.

“COUGH! BLARGHHH!”

Perhaps she ate too hastily, or perhaps she spent a while struggling to keep him from going to fetch water. Or, it might have been both.

From his perspective, her body seemed almost reduced to her own bones. It was clear, without needing to see, how she had survived wandering through wastelands and forests all this time.

As if intentionally revealing herself to be a stranger from another world, she had absolutely no clue which fruits were edible and which were not.

Then, after suddenly gorging on large amounts of meat, it was clear that she had failed to properly digest it, especially since she hadn’t drunk a single sip of water.

Calix, while holding her hair back with one hand and patting her back with the other, clicked his tongue out of frustration and slight empathy.

“Foolish.”

He had to take care of her eating, and on top of that, she wasn’t well enough to eat properly.