Now that Meesei had fused her rib back in place almost completely, Sabine breathed deeper again and began to relax and properly calm herself down. She considered curling up and napping after the stress of the fight, but she kept herself awake for tea. Or at least she tried. Her eyelids were heavy and she had almost fallen asleep by the time Tunxeek returned. Carefully, she sat up and rubbed her eyes.

"Father had water boiling for himself, but he always boils too much at once, so I did not have to wait to fill a pot." Tunxeek mentioned as he laid out three cups and filled them each with a brown water that carried flecks of leaves and root. "This is a blend that I make for mornings after bad sleeps. I don't make it as much as before, but you both look tired. This will..." for once, Tunxeek struggled to find the word at the tip of his tongue, it took all the time to pour the three clay cups to remember, "... give... life? No, uh... ve... vi... vigor! Yes, it will give vigor. Also, safe for non-Argonians."

Tunxeek handed cups to Sabine and Meesei. Sabine took hers slowly in both hands and blew on it before sipping. It was comforting, like before, but had a different flavour. Leafy was the easiest way to describe it. After a couple more sips, she was already cured of her heavy eyelids. In fact, her mind felt slightly sharper, slightly less clouded by fatigue and less overshadowed by disappointment. It was a nice reprieve. It needed something else though. Sabine reached over to her ingredients bag and searched through it. After a few seconds, she pulled out a dried petal from a flower she had plucked nearer to Thorn. She crushed the petal between two fingers and dropped it into her cup, stirring it with her finger, before bringing it to her lips again. As expected, the flavour was more to her liking. As an unexpected side effect, both Meesei and Tunxeek's lifeforces began to glow visibly through her eyes. Funny, she hadn't come across any other ingredients in the marsh that would react with the petal to detect life. Perhaps it was just the nature of how Tunxeek's special blend was prepared.

"What is that you have added to it, Sabine?" Tunxeek asked, curious as to why Sabine seemed to become so wide eyed when she first took a sip of her new mix.

Looking to Tunxeek, Sabine considered for a moment, then reached to fetch another couple of dried petals, crushing one and reaching to place it in Tunxeek's cup and doing the same with Meesei's cup. Tunxeek was slightly reluctant at first, but cautiously took a sip and found himself wide eyed in surprise as well. "It... detects life?" Tunxeek's face formed a smile, then he began to laugh. "Sabine, did you learn to make potions from Meesei, or another treeminder, or someone else?" Tunxeek asked.

"Witches," Sabine replied blankly, her eyes forward, before taking another sip.

This seemed to make Tunxeek confused. Trading glances with Sabine and Meesei, his smile faded. "Who is 'witches'?"

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"As long as it doesn't jump on anyone else when it gets bigger, sure." Fendros said.

With a chuckle, Janius lowered himself to be seated with everyone without disturbing the wamasu too much. To Kaleeth's comment, Janius replied, "Quite. I thought something as big as a wamasu would have children at least the size of a dog." Angling his head to look more closely at Jumps-On-Elves' diminutive head, Janius hummed thoughtfully, "How intelligent are wamasus anyway? Has anyone tried to tame them, or train them?"

"Has anyone tried to tame any beast of the marshes?" Fendros added cynically.