The Age Of Arma Gedeon

Chapter 49, Sunbathing

Lamica lays out bath towels and Urshawn lays Erray on them with his feet at the fire.

They've time to get very worried, before Ercody hurries in asking, "How can there be an emergency for a bath attendent?"

Urshawn states, "There is no healer for a dragon, only a Groomer.
"How would even your parents riddle out tending burn to a dragon from his own fire?

"Medical tending can't do anything, but put end to ordeal.
"He needs a diftent kind of tending."

Ercody eyes fill with tears as he looks to Erray's charred body, "Oh, geez."

Lamica grabs his brother by the shoulders, turning him away from Erray and jostling him, "You're always saying no one gets that bathing is more than washing.
"Now's the time to prove it."

Urshawn instructs, "Focus on the knowns.
"He's endanger of freezing to death on the inside, but outside he can't accept heat. His skin is too damaged."

Ercody fights his grieving and his tears run.

Lamica shakes him again harder, "Pull your shit together already!
"You're all he's got!

"We can't fight over him anymore if you let him die."

Ercody shakes off his brother, "I never said I'd fight cha for him."

Lamica taunts, "Not like you could."

Urshawn fusses, "Now's not the ti..."

He's cut off by a ball of sunlight in his face as Mamabear rushes in with Father Light, followed by Mayajap with Fartommy hog-tied hoping in.

He speaks with his gag, but not much before Fartony pulls him out.

"Healers are one thing, but knights out."

Mamabear orders, "Door guard, Mayajap."

She kneels and looks over Erray.

She shakes her head, "Lamica, get back on him.
"Love, keep Urshawn out of it."

Lamica shoves Ercody, "Well, are you worth anything?"

Ercody shakes his face, flinging tears, "I.. I am just nothing special. I can't do..."

Lamica slaps his brother's face, "No can'ts in front of Mother."

Ercody trembles and his tears stop flowing.
He takes a deep breath and shudders it out.

Father Light encourages, "You got it and again."

Ercody takes a deep breath and fights its exhale.

Mamabear gets up, "One more, baby boy."

Ercody has a deep breath and lets it out smooth.

He moves to kneel beside Erray, "Get water in that tub, not hot or cold, but lean to the warm side.

"I need supplies."

Lamica rushes to the tub as Mamabear informs him, "Name them, fetchers are waiting."

Ercody touches Erray's unburnt skin at his collarbone a moment, then sits back on his feet, "Cotton fabric, not clothed, but raw from the textile shop... for evening wear would be best. No dye though.
"At least one full bolt."

Mayajap relays on the path.

Ercody waits for her, then orders, "One skin care party basket and five gallons of lorady hair treatment, might have to get some from South Point."

He waits for Mayajap to dispatch the fetcher.

"One bucket of cow milk still warm from the cow, but strained."