No sooner had he made evident his observation did he regret it slightly. Arven had not intended to bring to light the fact that Miss Dempsey appeared to have been... given up on, to some extent. But then he reminded himself that the Miss Dempsey he knew (albeit only a little) was not a proud, vain type likely to be aghast at a lack of extreme attention. After all, yes she'd been reduced to animal form, but she was hardly trembling in fear.

Sure enough, it took her about ten seconds to quip, without missing a beat, and Arven gave a crooked smile. "You sound positively inconsolable", he observed ironically. Then: "be that as it may..."

The rest of his sentence went unfinished, in a murmur, but it was obvious he meant he wanted to help her regardless of her relatively good spirits. When he'd met her by the Black Lake, she'd been precisely in her element. She didn't need a Wrenovation.

"I imagine you've already concluded that healers probably aren't your best bet after all?"