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Caspa spoke, and Swentzle's face only hardened at the words. Perhaps, had he been able to see clearly, he might have said the same; but his hands were his eyes, and he could feel that slight gap between the stone that needed to be moved and the ones beneath it. Enough to survive beneath, he thought, and as Caspa moved forward to help him despite her protests, they managed to heave the rock up and off the injured dog. He let it go mid-fling, hoping that Caspa might do the same, and then turned his attention back toward the now-exposed chest of the white mutt. He coughed slightly at the dust that rose up into his nostrils, covering his maw for a moment before he knelt down, resting one hand on the mutt's sternum and holding the other before his mouth and nose.
After a long moment, he felt the slightest gust of air against his palm, and though there was no rise and fall beneath his other hand, he refused to believe that breath had been a fluke, rising and stepping back with a heavy sigh of his own. "I felt him take a breath. He may yet have a chance...do you see anything else preventing us from taking him to safety?" he asked, his head turning blindly toward where he thought his companion was. His hands dug in his satchel, and after a moment he came up with a pinch of a smelly herb that would hopefully ease whatever pain he caused as he attempted to bandage the male. He didn't move to force it into the strangers' mouth, though, until he was certain there was nothing else that needed to be done.
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