Firestone Hot Springs behind closed eyes

Vein stared at her then his eyes fell to be paw as she pulled it from the water. “How about you step over here, That paw needs cold now. If you could dip it in the snow” Vein’s eyes were wide her lowered his front end and backed out from below the vines timing his portable cache’s together.

He dug through the snow pushing enough aside to create a flat drier spot to work on. He quickly began pulling dried herbs from the wolf skull and placed then in the moose skull, emptying the wolf one almost completely, setting a few broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves aside.  Those were Plantain leaves, common enough plant he just wished he had more, since they were so common he didn’t grab much of them for his portable caches.

He continued to transfer many different herbs having no choice to put of of the overflow onto the rock itself, until the wolf skull was almost empty, in the base of the skull was a black powder, he tipped just a bit of the powder on the rock and mixed it with just a tiny bit of snow until he made almost a paste.

Vein then took a leaf and crushed it under paw while rolling it until the natural juices of the leaf were flowing but it kept it’s leaf shape this was what he was going to use to hold the charcoal paste where it needed to be, then he carefully covered the leaf with the paste.

He looked up to the female having started this work without ensuring that she had listened to him about putting her paw in the cold snow.

“It looks infected I need you to reduced the swelling by cooling your paw then I will cover it with these plantain leaves and charcoal to draw the infection out if we work quickly I might be able to save your paw”

Vein began to dig a wolf size hole in the snow, clearing the ground to make a more comfortable place for her to lay down.