Dedrick was a little more accepting of the idea of having a wolf nearby. Okay, he was a lot more accepting... "That is so cool! I can't wait to meet her!" He practically gushed, having been an animal lover all his life. Although it was true he wanted to stay close to his brother, it was also true that (being the more logical of the two) he realized it would look awkward if they were both under the same woman's roof... tree... thing... abode? yeah, that seemed to fit better than anything else he could think of.<br/><br/>Eliese smirked at Nathaniel's flustered face. She did realize he had unintentionally insulted her in more ways than one, but she was actually more amused that he was afraid of a wolf, rather than angry that she was 'scary' to him. She turned to him and said, "Well since you find me so frightening, is there anything I can do to convince you otherwise?"<br/><br/>The words had barely left her lips before she realized what she was doing. Gods be damned if she was going to treat these two any differently than her teacher(their mother) had treated her. She led the boys over to a large area where a very small lake of sorts was positioned in between the trees. "Disrobe and bathe here. If modesty is a problem for you, then I can only say this. You won't last long in a forest."<br/><br/>Dedrick cringed. "It's... not a question of modesty... It's... something else." he managed to say. This confused Eliese, and she asked, "What could possibly-" before Dedrick opened the front of his shirt to reveal a plethora of scars that seemed to run the length of his body from his father's abusive treatment. some seemed like they had been forced to reopen multiple times. Eliese couldn't help but stare for a moment. She closed her eyes and steadied her breathing before saying, "We DO have a few private baths, but after you use them, we are going to need to heal those injuries of yours."<br/><br/>Dedrick's eyes widened. "Heal them? They've been there since I was 8! How the hell-" he started a rebuttal despite being hopeful.<br/><br/>"We do have medicines and healing magic here, you realize that, right?" Eliese asked as she led them to the private baths and added, "Leave your clothes outside, and we will come back with some new ones as well as wash the current ones you are wearing."