Blacktail Deer Plateau Praying for Love, and Paying in Naivety

Rue took the unspoken invitation to step forward and examine Siqsa. She leaned over him, nose wrinkling as it passed over his swollen ear. "Infection," she confirmed, voice troubled. A frustrated rumble sounded in her throat-- quite an uncharacteristic sound for Rue. Had Siqsa been getting himself into trouble again? If he wasn't more careful, his mouth would be the death of him. 

Rue nodded at Corvus's recounting-- she had no reason not to believe him. Rue's tongue swiped gingerly over the young man's crown, confirming that he was fevered. She gave him a few more licks for good measure, less for diagnositc purposes and more to simply express her worry. She then backed away. "If you don't mind, would you see if there is a furred skin inside one of these dens? We'll need to pack that ear in snow, but keep the rest of him warm." Rue wasn't sure which dens belonged to which wolves and hated to take a skin without permission, but certainly no one would begrudge her borrowing in order to help a sick packmate. 

"I'm going to grab something from the medicine den," Rue tilted her head toward the den where Liri stored her supplies. Thank goodness Siqsa had taken sick so close to the densite-- or perhaps the wraith had carried him here? That would explain why he seemed out of breath. 

Rue returned with a mouthful of herbs, selecting the ones that Liri had fed the injured after the bear attack. One or more of them likely had infection-fighting properties. The problem was, Rue had little experience with the healing herbs of this region and had no way of knowing which herb was the antibiotic. 

Rue spit the herbs in front of Corvus. "Do you recognize any of these?" Rue asked the man, recalling that he had recently been nursed back to health by a woman who was presumed to be a healer. "You would have been prompted to consume it once or twice a day for a period of weeks." Most herbs with healing properties were repulsive to the tongue, so if Corvus had been fed any of these herbs regularly it was unlikely he would have forgotten already.