[attr="class","rosepost"]Her eye twitched. The Gogoat was not a battle, but a war. He could win this battle, taking it back to camp, but she would win the war and get the last laugh against the traitorous island dweller. [break][break]

As it was, there were more pressing matters. "I gotcha, big guy." It helped that they were the same height. She hoisted his arm over her shoulders and walked him to a grassy spot. Sand would only get in the way, otherwise. She sat him on a boulder so he was at a better height for her inspection. She put her hands on his face and tilted his head this way and that to examine the wound. "Mostly superficial," she observed. "Should heal pretty quickly, actually. We just wanna make sure its clean."[break][break]

Since the whole area was surrounded with Pinap trees, she was fortunate enough to grab one from the ground that had split upon falling. "Ground Pinap," she explained, "is exactly what you deserve for running off and picking a fight." She held one half of it and pulled a chunk from it, waiting for Rex to open his mouth to disagree so she could stuff his face with it. "Let the doctor work, yeah?"[break][break]

She pulled another piece. They were sweet and sticky, but it was the best she could do without purified water. "Might sting," she warned before squeezing a chunk of it above his cheek, letting the acidic fluid wash down the cut. Instead of wasting it, she put the squeezed piece of fruit in her mouth and used her newly free hand to wipe at the bottom half of his face, cleaning up a streak of blood.

[break][break]Althus Rex [break]