Sleepy Fox Hollow The world don't see

Etienne spoke, but to Anselm, only half of it was intelligible. He paused, glancing to the healer basking in the water. Em Sworna-- He butchered it terribly. What does that mean?

He was instructed to stand alongside Etienne and hold down the crude bandages while he worked. Anselm paused for a long minute, weighing how this would appear -- him, in close proximity to a man, touching him.

In the end, his rare sense of altruism surrounding a packmate won out, though he was deeply uncomfortable as he placed his paws upon the rough bondage. He waited with breath baited, ears turned to Etienne for further instruction.