Treading on thin ice

The girl stated that she was indeed training to be a healer but there was a shortage of instructors in the girls pack. Pity. Rœkia could be tempted to arrange a deal wit this girl's pack in exchange for food and board but there was still the problem of what to do with her young cousin who was family, but also enemy. It was complicated and she didn't know what to do yet.

Rœkia grabbed her water skin from her beaten up travois and poured water into the bowl with the bruised root before scooting it next to the fire to create a decoction. She looked up at the girl. "Sort of. I'm making a decoction of the root just as you would for dandelion however I'm going to apply it topically to my wound after it cools. Dandelion you usually drink. Although, I have heard of wolves drinking decoctions of bistort root for internal bleeding." She'd never tried it herself.

Rœkia took a strand of sinew and carefully worked to tie it around the other root. It took some doing as she did not have her companion, Wolf, with her yet. She had no idea where the magpie had gotten off to but she hoped he returned soon. Eventually she got a sloppy not around the root and she was able to hang it from her travois to begin drying in the cool winter air.