Bearclaw Valley Your Special Spot in Hell Awaits You

was skoll concerned his healer would turn kristen gilbert on him, and ease him off to the next clearing on the path? astara smiled wrly as she placed the bundle on the ground, a rare expression for so grave a woman.

he asked if she knew what to do with it -- astara took a leaf in her mouth and chewed, a single shake of no given. another leaf was taken, and then another -- until a sluice of poultice and saliva dribbled from her mouth. the taste was horribly bitter, but astara continued; while she did not know what she was doing, she had seen evien do the same to her. experienced it, as well.

gingerly, astara made to move towards skoll's wound, but she paused and looked to him once while the bolus was still held in her mouth. with his blessing, she'd apply it -- but she'd probably apply it without his blessing, too. can't have her esteemed warriors dying of infection, not when ursus had so many enemies.

oh --and it stings.