Return of the stick

After hearing what Orchid had done for me I relayed for her to snuggle up to my top half. As she nuzzled into my chest taking a no so subtle deep sniff as she did so, I began to gently stroke her hair.

"Thank you for what you did for me Orchid. Although even with my current situation of a mangled lower body I'm still not close to death, If Jewel went any longer there is a good chance I could have died." Orchids eyes began welling up again at the statement for multiple reasons, the first being the thought of an Apollo less universe brought such great pain to the hivemind mind and second she could feel her queen looking in from outside her link scared of how Apollo now thinks of her.