Faith looked at the device that Vordan left in front of her. Although she wasn't very familiar with the device, it seemed fairly simple. Just put the bolts into the holes. Faith slowly grabbed a bolt with one hand, and then reached for the device. The second she touched the device, a tiny blinding light was emitted from the place where Faith touched the device, and then her hand was forcefully blown back by a sudden burst of energy. Faith was completely dumbfounded by what just happened, and didn't really understand what had just happened. She stuttered "I c-can't do it." to Vordan as she looked up. To her horror, an arrow had hit him. She then simply went deeper into the wagon, and hid under the relative safety of the covered wagon. Faith somewhat understood why Caelis told her to hide in here. The walls would protect her from the stray arrows, but the tarp that covered the wagon also helped hide her... In this chaos, not a lot of people would notice the small girl sneaking off into the wagon. But, once again, she found herself disappointed that she couldn't help. --- Caelis looked around at the remains of this fight. The soil was damp with blood and it gave off a dirty, muddy hue. The lumps of formerly living people were immobile and painted with the red of their life essence. The eerie silence of survivors was deafening. Such was the aftermath of a conflict. Caelis was used to it, but at the same time. No one could really get used to it. All that one could do was move on. Thus, Caelis tore his eyes from the scene and began to walk back to Faith. However, as his adrenaline went away, he was given an unpleasant reminder as he was seized by pain from the arrow. Caelis reach around his back to feel the wound. It was in pretty deep, but Caelis didn't think that it had hit anything important. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to walk right now. The problem was that Caelis didn't want Faith to see him hurt, and having an arrow sticking out of him wasn't the best way to convince her. So, despite the fact that it would be smart to leave the arrow in for now so that it would allow the wound to clot, Caelis grabbed the shaft of the arrow and with one hand and pulled. Blood came gushing out from the wound, and Caelis quickly discarded the arrow. He reached over to one of the dead bandits and ripped off a long portion of his shirt. Caelis tightly tied the cloth around his wound in an attempt to put pressure on his wound so that he wouldn't be bleeding as much. Then he covered the makeshift compress with his clothes. Now it wasn't as obvious that he was hurt. Caelis did his best to clean himself up to remove the blood that stained him. Then he went back to Faith. Caelis peeped into the wagon and could feel how she was distraught. Caelis said "What's wrong? You know that I won't be leaving you any time soon." In response, Caelis was met with the most heart wrenching silence. Caelis climbed into the wagon and held Faith, who began to cry. --- The short trip to the spring was relatively silent and Caelis and Faith just sat next to each other without saying a word. When they arrived, Caelis started a small fire by the water, and they just sat next to each other without a word. It was silent until Aaerynn arrived and asked if anyone needed medical attention. Caelis replied "No, everyone is fine. I only ripped my clothes a little. He then took a quick look in his bag by reaching in there. He then turned to Faith and said "Faith, could you go around and see if you can find some spider webs? Don't go too far, but if you could find some, then I could stitch the rips together." Faith nodded and simply got up to search around the area for anything that could be used as a replacement for thread. Caelis then turned back to Aaerynn and said "Don't tell her." as he took off his shirt. The makeshift compress was soaked in blood. He should have treated it immediately, but he didn't want to worry Faith any more. So, he let the wound go on untreated. He already felt a bit light-headed from the bloodloss, but he had to do something about the wound. He first reached into his backpack and pulled out a small pot and another small bag. He filled the pot with some of the spring water and put it on the fire. He then opened the small bag and in it was some salt, which he poured a good portion of into the pot. Caelis then untied the cloth and felt around the injury. It was still bleeding a little, but it did clot partially. He took his water canteen and poured some of the water on the wound to clean it. Then once the pot was adequately heated. Caelis took the pot off the fire. He then looked at Aaerynn and said "Would you mind pouring some of this on my wound? It isn't exactly a healer's most ideal method, but with what I've got on hand. I suppose some warm salt water will have to do."