"What?" The man could barely move, he was just about managing to lift his hand, pointing in the direction of a few bushes. He must be so incredibly tired, only being able to- [i]Oh. That makes sense.[/i]

"You're hungry. Of course, of course you are." Not getting much of a reply, Taliaren babbled on regardless. "It makes a lot of sense, actually. You'd expect near-death experiences to be..." And so on and so on.

She quickly got to the bushes and gathered as many berries as she could hold in both hands, before hurrying back to where he lay. She got there, before realising that, due to his current state, it would be very difficult for him to eat them, especially with the threat of choking. She ended up feeding him herself, carefully giving him only one at a time. The process was slow and boring, but she hadn't come this far just to kill him herself. It took a while for her to register that fact that though she knew very little about what was going on, he likely knew even less. So she told him her side of the story while he ate, explaining how and why she got here and found him. She mentioned the healing ritual but didn't go into the details too much - most people weren't generally interested. By the time she was done, the berries were gone, and while he was by no means in a good state, he seemed a little better.

"So, you opened your eyes for a second, looked [i]really[/i] weird, and then just fell asleep again. I was pretty tired and you weren't exactly going anywhere any time soon, so here we are."

Taliaren decided that now he'd eaten something (though admittedly not much, it would have to do, she figured), she should try to get the two of them home, or somewhere similar enough. There wasn't much that she could do about his clothes, as she wouldn't be able to kill, say, a wolf or something, even at her strength's fullest. She told him this, and apologised for it.

"But if we could get to my home, there'll probably be something there we can use, and I'll need to be back soon anyway. I think there are more berry bushes along the way, so we could get you more to eat. If I help you, can you walk?"