Unspoken

~Chapter 5~

Addy clutched her leg with a wince as the Voltaris wrapped It with bandages.

"You should be a bit better now." The Voltaris said and she watched him with pursed lips then looked down at her leg. The Deathsinger didn't seem to have bothered with gentleness when he stabbed her leg. He just thrust his tail barb in and didn't bother to check if she was ok. And it didn't last just a minute, the effect was still there. It lasted a minute for Kos because he seemed to be more used to tail venom. Which meant he had been stabbed multiple times and she had been quick enough to avoid it. But Kos's scream of pain was enough evidence that the Deathsinger's tail venom was stronger than the others.

"Is she 'ok'?" A male voice asked once the Medic walked out. If she wasn't wrong it sounded like the Deathsinger, he was asking if she was 'ok'? Much to her surprise her heart fluttered at the thought, but she quickly pressed it down. She saw the Deathsinger walk into the tent a minute later and see her leg, his expression softened, and guilt was evidence in his eyes as he sat on the edge of the cot.

"I didn't expect it to last this long." He said and rested his hand on her leg. She let out a cry of pain and he pulled his hand back quickly, ears pinned. Her leg was still sore, but she grabbed his hand and put it back on the wound, she found his touch comforting in a way that she wasn't used to, and she knew he wasn't used to it to. He clearly had feelings for her in some way. She just needed him to trust her to openly express hers. He looked towards her and she let a gentle smile pull at her lips.

"I thought it hurt." He said but pressed his hand down on her leg a bit more.

"It does but it's better when you're touching it." She said and smiled; she saw a bit of blush creep across his face, but he quickly shook it off.

"I still don't fully trust you but... I will admit you're getting somewhere. Even if you where trying to take us down from the inside you would never heal the Deathsinger, or let me throw a sword into one of your fellow champions, your sword. You were completely defenseless and for that I slightly trust you." He stood up and watched her. "You should probably get back to your camp now. They'll be wondering where you are and frankly you still aren't very welcome here."

With that he walked out of the tent and she felt her heart sink. In that one moment where she felt a connection to him he just had to ruin it with the 'you still aren't welcome here'. She stood up and moved her leg a bit, making sure she could move her leg. She nodded and grabbed her sword, sheathing it then walking out of the tent and back towards her camp but she saw the Deathsinger looking back at her, a slight smile pulling at his lips that he was clearly trying to fight off, she looked closer and saw the blush present on his face. She smiled slightly then remembered the old Voltaris's words.

There's something he's always wanted that you have...

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A few weeks later...

Addy snuck quietly through the encampment after everyone was asleep towards Kos's tent, her arm was wrapped up from a scratch she had received from a Voltaris who accidently cut her when he was thrown back. It still stung a bit but she could manage as she always had. Kos was clearly sleeping as he had just spent the last 20 minutes giving a speech and not taking a single breath in between, it seemed. It was a feeling she despised but she knew she had to. She was going to steal it. Just one, not all of them, just enough that it would seem like some animal took them, and she was going to get an animal to take them. Or sort of... She slipped into the tent and snuck past Kos's tent buddy towards his pack, opening it and pouring a bit of bear saliva that she had found in the woods on it, putting leaves in the tent as well and crafting fake bear footprints to deepen the effect and picking up the first song that fell out, the Protisium Prime Song. She picked it up and slipped it into her pocket, glancing around again then sneaking back to her tent and grabbing her things, She grabbed her horse and got on it's back riding back towards the Voltaris encampment, She was going to get the Deathsinger to trust her if it was the last thing she did, and it very well might be. Hopefully not but it just might.