Blood Trail

Tor had been quietly tending to the pen of prairie hens he'd spent the last several days catching, dropping dried seed heads he'd been gathering all autumn through the opened top. The painstakingly woven and lashed-together cage was on a travois along with the supplies he carried with him on a journey that took him far from the barn he usually used as his base. The preserved meat he'd carried was gone now, but he was on the return leg of his journey anyway and would soon be home. He'd been nervous about leaving the elk herd with possible predators about, but he couldn't remain with them constantly and still gather the supplies he needed.

His head jerked up as a familiar call came to him. Regulus', and it sounded urgent. His blue eyes widened in consternation and alarm - what could have brought Regulus so far out here? And the call was not for him alone, but for another. Dropping the top back over the pen and giving a soft bark to call Aiden to him, he raced towards Regulus' call as a second voice answered him. He adjusted course towards the second call, startled to hear it coming from his home. He arrived to the scent of infection and pain, and a quiet word to the falcon who'd caught up with him sent her winging back to guard the prairie chickens. He wouldn't need her to go for herbs after all, since his supplies were cached in a scavenged metal container here in the barn. A soft murmur of voices, muffled by the vast structure so that he could not hear what was said, only voices, led him to where Regulus was.

Gaze studied the pair before him with a quiet calm. The last he'd seen this female was in support of the male who'd challenged for Celestial, but Regulus seemed to be comforting rather than confronting, despite the chill in his eyes. Well, anyone who knew Tornach knew it wasn't in his nature to withhold treatment from someone simply for being on the wrong side of a conflict, so it was without hesitation that he padded toward the pair. "Regulus," he greeted, dipping his head in a quiet nod, then shifted his attention to the female. "May I examine you? I'm a healer. I can help."