"I've been in enough battles to know when a place is totally lost. We've lost half the town to whatever poison they gave them and we can't hold them out forever. We have to get away from here while we can."

He looks down at the man's heel on his knee, then at the injury itself. It looks worse up close than it did from the doorway. He extends his hand over it and takes a breath.

When the hell did he become the healer of this group? Well, he never was much of a fighter.