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The poor stranger, introducing himself as Thomas, looked a bit wary when he sent Eva for red berries. Markus could have explained that Eva didn't like red meat, and preferred to eat berries and grass along with it when they had it, but because it really wasn't any of this male's business, he didn't comment, pretending he didn't notice anything instead. It was surprisingly easy to do. Eva, meanwhile, had found red berries--raspberries--and ran back with them, chattering eagerly around her mouthful as she dropped them at Markus' feet and ran off for more before he could tell her that was plenty. With a sigh, he ran a hand over his face and bent to pick them up, tucking them into his bag.
You're welcome to eat with us, Thomas. Reed won't mind us raiding his medical supplies to change those bandages. Markus glanced down at the bloody rags, and shook his head at the infection risk. They definitely needed to be changed, and he thought there might be some sort of plant that could be made into a salve in the area--aloe? That might be it. That was for burns, he knew, but it had a distinctive numbing quality, and it wasn't that hard to cook and mash leaves into goop. Frowning thoughtfully, Markus thought about sending Eva to look for aloe leaves--but they were far too similar for Eva's untrained eye to tell apart.
Thomas spoke again, and Markus nodded a bit, before adding after a moment, Fran's my brother. You could probably tell.
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