Chapter 110: Help
Sosora ate her burger and the next before the others dared to talk to her and joined her at the table with the food they had prepared, whether it be grilled steak or just patties. At first, they had to force themselves to talk about whatever they could think of since they weren’t sure how to act around Sosora.
But it didn’t take long for the conversation to derail and flow naturally. Sosora might be blind and in the midst of a deep emotional upheaval, but she was still Sosora. She was still their friend. That hadn’t changed. They could talk to her as usual.
Unintentionally or not, they steered clear of serious topics like the current state of the forest and what had happened between the tribes following the incident at the Orovir tunnels.
Malak stepped back and double-checked to make sure that Sosora would be fine before grabbing Nick’s attention and pulling him to the side so that they could talk just the two of them.
"I’m not much for beating around the bush, Nick, so I’ll just go ahead and ask...Do you know of a way to help her?" Malak asked as soon as they were far away enough from the others that they wouldn’t hear.
"I assume you mean a way to restore her sight?" Nick asked just to be sure. It could have been that Malak just wanted a guide on how to help newly blind people adjust to a life without vision.
Malak nodded.
Nick was an Outsider with mysterious knowledge and tools and an even more mysterious background. The healers of the tribes who had offered help couldn’t do anything. The most they could do was remove the pain and turn the wound into a scar. But they couldn’t fix her eyes.
"I..." Nick was going to say that he didn’t know, but stopped himself. He might not know. But he knew someone who actually had a mysterious background.
He glanced inside. It wasn’t the situation he had thought, but it was as good a situation as any, really.
"I don’t. Follow me," He said simply, turning around to head inside.