He lifts her again, this time carrying her to the bathroom so he can start by gently rinsing her wound before cleaning it properly. He does both, then puts medicine over the gash, mindful of how he removes cloth from around the injury so it can be tended. He does his best not to cause her more pain than he can avoid.

"No one I've spoken to knows the name of this island, or the city. Just that we're all brought here by, what the auger calls, glitches. The world is called Erku though, and we're supposed to bring life back to it."

He soaks some bandages in medicinal herbs before binding her wound and resettling her clothes in place. Mourning robes, he notes.