**Elmshadow**
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Levi 99
As Dawnstar stepped into the den, Elmshadow turned from his work and looked at the warrior she slumped into a nearby nest. He nodded as she gave him a brief explanation then turned out of the den and disappeared. The dark medicine cat took a couple long strides to bring himself to the injured cat’s side. The warrior had been gone, Elmshadow hadn’t cared to track for how long, but then he showed back up looking like this. His green eyes peaked just over his crinkling nose as the stench wafted up to him; he didn’t need to be a medicine cat to recognize the signs of infection wrought over Shadefrost’s bites and scratches. Elmshadow turned and tore off a clump of moss to soak in the trickling water and turned back to his patient. He used the water-logged moss to scrub the wounds and the surrounding areas clean; with the infection tainting the wounds Elmshadow didn’t feel it safe to have either Shadefrost or himself clean out the wounds through regular grooming.
Once the bites and scratches had been cleaned down to raw, red, mildly oozing wounds, Elmshadow turned to his herb stores. Their marigold was low and there was no promise of reliably restocking it, wasting it on a warrior who disappeared rubbed Elmshadow wrong, but there was no doubt that without
something to treat the infection Shadefrost wouldn’t make it long. Even without Shadefrost wasting herbs, Elmshadow couldn’t deny that they could likely run into the need of an herb to be able to treat infection in case they couldn’t find more marigold, so Shadefrost’s recklessness could be spun to his benefit; Elmshadow saw very little to be lost in using the tom to test some theories on. He’d used honey in the past to cover wounds and it seemed to help though he wasn’t sure if it would effectively treat an active infection. This may be the best opportunity for him to try it out. He grabbed the leftover honeycomb and the two dock leaves to line Shadefrost’s nest to keep it clean if the honey before returning to the injured tom.
Gently rolling Shadefrost one way then the other, Elmshadow slipped the broad leaves between the tom and the bedding before taking pawfuls of honey from the honey comb and slathering it over the raw wounds.
”How does that feel?”
[Elmshadow doesn’t know but the dock leaves would actually help soothe his wounds. The honey also works to soothe wounds as well as treat infection, though, as stated, Elmshadow doesn’t know about the infection part]
[ -2 dock leaves -0.75 honeycomb ]
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TheNyanCatMinecart @
NinjaBloss No problem ^^ If I had Elmshadow respond at all it would’ve been just to let Ivysnake handle it anyway]