BACK'S AGAINST THE WALL ☆ warm bath

[roan ;]

In most cases, Roan would've been more than a little pissed off by the presence of others while he was trying to relax. Ever the walking contradiction, the sage found having other people around to be both a great joy and a horrible burden, and it seemed to switch rapidly which of those was true at a given moment. Most of the time, it was related to whether or not those around him were his patients. In this case, one of them very much was a patient, and one a former patient. Despite this, they were also both family, and Roan simply didn't have it in him to be aggravated at family. Especially not when it was his younger siblings. Although they had all grown apart as the months had gone on and they had begun growing, Roan didn't consider himself to be any less of a big brother to them. He still felt very protective of both Lu and Jaime, as well as the rest of his siblings. It was sometimes hard to feel too protective of Trygve, considering the other had a tendency to act like the big brother all on his own, but the siamese liked to think he managed. Even when all of his siblings were physically bigger than him, he would always think of them as little ones, at least in his head.

The male chose to address Lu first, considering she was the first to approach him. Roan had been utterly and completely relaxed, his chin resting lazily on the side of the tub, when Eulia's words reached him. At first, he didn't even open his eyes, just giving a little flick of his ears to show that he was listening. A slow bubbling laughter left him as he shifted a little, glad to hear his sister joking around, "Don't worry, I'm sure that the sourpuss will be back when I have to return to my work." After all, he couldn't just relax in his little handmade hot tub forever. He still had Ament to deal with, not to mention any other injuries that popped up in the time between now and when he went to sleep. The thought made him wrinkle his nose slightly, a faint sigh leaving him with a heave of his lungs. Thankfully, Eulia was around to once again distract him, her soft and hesitant words causing him to finally open his blue eyes. Smiling reassuringly – and a bit tiredly – at her, he purred in a soft tone of voice, "...I'm okay, Lu. I've been a little stressed out lately, but I knew what was coming when I became a sage. After all, I wanted to help others, and I'm doing plenty of that, so who am I to complain?" He knew that there was much more to it than just that, but he didn't have the will to deal with that right now, not while he was supposed to be relaxing.

Turning his gaze towards Jaime next, Roan waved his tail in greeting to his younger brother, his eyes lingering briefly on the scales adorning the other's form. He knew that Jaime's nod was meant to tell him that the other was around to help, but the sage couldn't help his curiosity, and worry. So, instead of focusing on himself, he found himself muttering a question to Jaime, head tilted, "...How are you doing? Those scales haven't been bothering you anymore, have they?" It was a bit awkward, asking medicine related questions while he lounged lazily within a warm bath, but it was certainly more relaxing. He felt less like he was drowning in stress, at the very least.

[glow=#D15540,1,000]" stay by my side, high or low tide " ♡[/glow]