[ This isn't a reaction Era had expected nor been prepared for, but she's nothing if not skilled at improvisation. She shifts so that she's kneeling atop the bench and not sitting on it, so she's more able to hold him close without the awkwardness of their heights; press him to her brest that she might stroke his hair and hum a soothing tune.
Era has no experience comforting the inconsolable, but she has witnessed countless mothers doing the same for their ill children and so can only assume (hope) it's a comfort. ]
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Era has no experience comforting the inconsolable, but she has witnessed countless mothers doing the same for their ill children and so can only assume (hope) it's a comfort. ]