Hearthside Apothocary [Healing Lesson]

Paladin’s dark lips twitched as his ears caught the faint gasp from down the hall somewhere, recognizing Lee’s voice, soon enough the russet, gold and coal streaked girl slipped into the crafting room, and in a few minutes, Amorielle arrived. Paladin smiled lightly at the girls, nodding as he spoke, glancing aside to a lump tucked against the wall of the cave, shadowy in the firelight.

“Today, we’ll practice wound identification and care. Cairo and Ardyn were kind enough to hunt me down a boar for you to practice with. They also roughed it up a bit so we’d have wounds to examine. Now, some of these methods of wound repair may be difficult to do by paw, but should you end up befriending a primate like a lemur or monkey, the methods should be much easier to accomplish.”

His nodded to the bundles he’d set out, adding, “Why don’t you open your kits there? They have the tools and materials you’ll need.”

Leaving to examine the contents of their bundles – thin bone needles, long enough to be used with the teeth and still be able to see from the corner of one’s eye while making a suture, long threads of sinew stripped to be thin enough for the uses healers needed them for, bottles of salve made with herbs that had some numbing qualities, and strips of soft rabbit skins and pelts for wrapping or use as poultice pads, among other things – Paladin went to the boar and dragged it across the floor by one leg with a quiet old man’s grunt until it was in full light, especially once Kayode and Ime set up several oil lantern pots.

He waited for them to finish their investigations patiently, wanting them to take their time and learn rather than rushing them through things.