To put it mildly, this was not how Evangeline had anticipated her day going. A pleasant afternoon in the park with her children had ended prematurely when Elliott had gotten himself bitten by... something. It had been a long time since Eva had done much study of creatures, so she wasn't entirely sure of the identity, but she'd at least gotten a good enough look at the thing to describe it to the healer.

Emilia was sent home with a servant, and now Evangeline and her son were sitting in the hospital waiting for a healer to come see them. The pair of them were an interesting sight, she though ruefully--her son, doing his very best to look brave, even as he was cradling his injured hand to his chest and quietly sniffling; Evangeline, worried but keeping a stubbornly reassuring expression on her face, very aware of her child's perceptive gaze--if she panicked, he surely would. When the healer arrived, Elliott was leaning into Eva's side and she was stroking his hair, but when the door opened, the boy pulled away and Evangeline tried not to be hurt by it.

When prompted, Elliott told the healer about coming across a strange creature in the trees in Padmore Park, and Evangeline interjected with a description of thing, saying, "I'm not sure what it was, I don't think I've seen it before."

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