[ The labored breaths are what find Joshua, the sound of them rasped out and rough like the wheezing fits that often caused Joshua to wake in the middle of the night. Joshua immediately wonders if the stranger has a similar constitution or if he had just simply been running too much lately. The heat could also be a contributing factor, and rather than ignore it, Joshua immediately goes to crouch down to check on the man, his own expression radiating concern. ]

Here, I brought some water with me from one of the festivities.

[ It's in a metal flask that they'd gifted him, one that Joshua hastily uncorks and holds out. ]

Drink some before you faint. This is no ideal place to drop your guard. Though this land appears safe and orderly at first glance, even the most prosperous of cities in my homeworld had not been immune to theft and murder.

[ Had he access to his healing magic, he could have aided the stranger further, but this world has seen fit to strip him of even that. ]