Swiftcurrent Creek the wounds that cut the soul

To keep this organized and easier to follow, the posting order after me is:

Scimitar
Jace
Ferdie

.. and then Bazi again.

Edit: Editing Sky out as the post seems to have disappeared.

Edit 2: Corrected a writing blunder.

"He is depressed and like me."

Bazi snorted her derision, lips pulled back in a snarling grimace. "So?" she snapped, "You can control yourself, and you don't go and sit in a hole when you get a bit blue. What if he had 'accidentally' bitten Nightingale?" Her stark eyes were unsympathetic and hard, but the expression wasn't meant for Jace. The cold glare found Scimitar quite by chance when she turned her face away to find calm in the darkness. Whatever plant the tank-like healer was chewing had a strange smell to it, but there was an unfortunate correlation between smell and the ability to do good in the plant world. She rose, seconding Jace's hello with a silently inviting nod and a softened expression. Whatever she had to say on the subject of Ferdie von Pelt would have to wait.

Or not. Ferdie cut a sorry figure, crusty with blood and limping stiffly. Bazi's own rushing thoughts and the overwhelming scent of carnage masked the battered male's approach until he was much closer than she was prepared to allow. The pale girl sprang away from Jace with a muted gasp, lowering her head defensively and directing a cold, penetrating stare at the hobbling figure. Before she could say anything snide, Ferdie had collapsed onto the ground next to his foe. She was dumbstruck by his flowery speech (but barely acknowledged a word of it), awed that Jace would let him so close with the wound his neck still raw and bleeding.

In the midst of all this chaos, Bazi anchored her eyes on Scimitar's neutral face. "It would be good of you, she said, her voice tight with an anger not intended for him. "To tend to.. the wounds." Without looking at Ferdie, she gave the decrepit warrior a quietly spoken order to "Go to Fox. Tell her what you have done and tell her the truth about your condition. Are you strong enough to accompany him, Jace?"