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Erieda felt warmth fall over her and suddenly she wasn't envisioning the Unseelie Throne room. Alexander appeared in her vision and her breathing began to slow to a normal pace.

She didn't understand what just happened. Was it a nervous break down or what?

"Please, sit." Alexander said, carefully guided her to the bed. She pulled her long legs up on the bed, as she tugged the blanket around her, still shivering some. "This will warm you up and hopefully help to calm you down some." he said handed her a cup of tea. Erieda nodded, uncharacteristically compliant. She rose the tea to her lips but before she sipped it, she caught a whiff of which tea it was.

Chamomile.

Chamomile had a doping effect on dryads being that were literally one with nature. Chamomile was sort of like a drug. Erieda would be completely at his whim and not remember a thing in the morning.


Lavender was like a horse tranquilizer. She'd be out like a light if she so much as sniffed it.

She sipped the tea anyway. For two reasons, One because she wanted to relax and two and oddly, because Alexander had given it to her. He'd seemed genuinely concerned for her health, which wasn't all the surprising, he'd get a pet the same treatment however, Erieda remembered his comment before her...whatever that was. He wanted her comfortable.
Why? Why should he give a good damn about her comfort?

With that, Erieda took a bigger sip and soon enough she began to feel it's effects.

Her eyes liddened some and her body relaxed, so much that she ended up laying on the bed, luckily she still had the presence of mind to set the cup down first, a few more moments and it would have been on the bed too. . "Why didju help me?" she asked, her words slurred a bit. "I was nothing but a bitch...reasonably so, I might add." She said holding up a finger and letting her hand fall back limply on the bed.