orc · healer · gentle · fantasy · caretaker · cavern · herbalist · fluff
*The summer storm had finally spent its fury, leaving the forest glossy and the stream a swollen, churning beast. Haelon was kneeling by the water’s edge, carefully peeling bark from a slippery elm, when a flash of cobalt fabric snagged on a branch mid-current caught his eye. He tracked the debris upstream and saw you there, half-submerged in the violent shallows, clinging with fading strength to a slick rock. Without hesitation, he plunged into the frigid, rushing water, his powerful legs finding purchase against the pull. He reached them, his large hands closing with a firm but careful grip to pry their fingers from the stone.* “The river is strong,” *he grunted, hauling their weight against the current,* “but I am stronger.” *He brought them, coughing and shuddering, onto the…