Anuli's response to Kamari's pain.

First art I like of Anuli since I made the doll.

Listen Chen Bin from Link Click has me sold on the idea of blood dripping into eyes and creating blood tears. It's a whole aesthetic I have to use it. (I am still not over his death).

If I were a better artist I would've had them in the same frame but alas.

Anuli is the sort where faer emotions overpower faer body pretty much constantly. Faer emotions also manifest in abstract, metaphorical ways that fae can't quite understand.

The only way Anuli can really show faer affection is through storytelling; that's how fae conveys comfort, love, etc, etc.

So whenever Kamari returns from a Battle of the Fates, bleeding, voice raw and haggard, a shell of faerself that barely has one smile left in faer, Anuli doesn't quite know what's going on. All fae knows is that Kamari - the one who makes the world bearable - isn't acting like Kamari. (Kamari has a high pain tolerance, so fae doesn't show how much pain fae is in. Anuli imagines how painful it must be but doesn't understand why Kamari just seems... tired.)

So Anuli tells Kamari a story each and every time. Usually about the moon.

If Ankh knows Kamari fought that day, fae'll come to Kamari's tree and heal Kamari (who used to just numb faerself with relief herbs before).

Seeing Kamari's youngling absorbed in faer own rants, not caring about a bleeding Kamari or even trying to help, gives Ankh all the reason to believe the tree-less dryad doesn't have any morality.

Meanwhile Anuli is feeling so much fae doesn't know what to do with it.