Battle In the Night

"No I mean how are with blood," Tolkalee turned to show her the broken arrow in his shoulder. Because it was broken only about an inch was visible out of his shoulder. "Two hands are required to get this out, I can only use one of mine. I'm going to require your help."

"I need you to help me remove this," he explained. "And it's not going to be really easy either."

Tolkalee picked up a cloth that he had next to him and relaxed his injured arm. "Once you're ready don't give me any warning just pull the arrow out," he explained. Behind him, Seth shifted and slowly went to his feet. He had his eyes on Tolkalee.
"Oh boy," Seth's voice was only loud enough for Jackson to hear him.

The second Kat pulled the arrow, Seth launched forward catching Tolkalee's arm and pulling him back trapping him on the ground. Tolkalee let out a cry of pain, then took a breath and tapped Seth's legs that had him in an arm bar. "Thanks," he briefly said to Seth before pressing the cloth to his shoulder.

Tolkalee sat up and shook his head, pressing harder on the wound. "No, water risks infecting it, despite how clean it may look," he glanced at Kat. "Thanks," Seth pat him on the shoulder and stood up. "I probably should have warned you, that the two of us have had fighting ingrained into us, so sudden pain can be dangerous for others. I don't know if you saw, but Seth had to stop me from accidentally hurting you, which is why he locked me in an arm bar. You did nothing wrong, it's just sort of the way we have been trained."

Seth walked over to his back pack and pulled out something that was wrapped up neatly. He unwrapped it to reveal some meat that he'd taken off the deer before Kara had attacked. "I have this."

Tolkalee had pulled his shirt off and was slowly stitching up his shoulder wound. Seth was sitting down near him and they were talking. He was trying to keep Tolk's mind off the pain as he stitched up the wound.

"Do you have a name for em'?" Tolkalee asked looking at the small creature as it played.

Seth got down on the ground pulling out a rope from his back pack. "Gunther! Come here, you wanna play with the rope?" He drug the rope back and forth on the ground.

Tolkalee smiled as he watched the young creature playing with Seth. It was like watching a puppy play. "I didn't know you were such a softy for animals Seth," he teased.
"Yes you did," Seth shot back in a playful way. The two seemed so at ease even though they both knew that they were walking into a war zone, very soon.

Tolkalee finished wrapping his shoulder and stood up. "We'll need to set watches through the night. I can take the first one, Kat would you like the one after me?"

Seth set his hand on Tolkalee's shoulder. "I'll take the last watch so, Kat after your shift, wake up Jackson."

Tolkalee set himself up a little ways from the camp and began meditating. A good way for him to heighten his senses to better keep watch. Seth sat down and leaned against a log, very quickly seeming to be asleep.

The night began to drag out and Tolkalee didn't move. He was listening to the sounds of the forest around them. An owl called from somewhere, mice were running around, and crickets were singing. Then it slowly got silent. Until the only thing still making any sound was the breeze shaking the leaves. That was when Tolkalee stood up and pulled out his bow.

Tolkalee gave a short soft whistle and Seth's eyes opened. He didn't move but he was obviously listening as well. Something was watching them, from somewhere, but neither knew what, or from where.
(No you're fine school starts for me in two days so, we may want to move when we reply to this, to weekends just so school doesn't end up overwhelming us.)