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Lilith nodded down to Gale. "Let him walk. Better to fall behind than to break one's neck falling off. Ready?"

Without really waiting for a reply, Lilith nudged their horse into a fast walk, allowing it to speed up some from there. Riding behind Nathien, she was able to watch out for him to keep him on the horse should he begin to slip.

The horses could only go so fast between the trees, even being trained for it. The good news was that if their pursuers were also on horses, they would have the same problem. The woods began to open up as they traveled, but before they were out in the open Lilith was forced to stop the group to check on the injured and to give both the horses and those on foot a rest.

She turned first to Nathien. "How is the bleeding? Let me see."

(( and they all... go off now? xd ))

Lilith made sure every one else was situated before moving off again. One of the men from the raid seemed to be badly injured, so she changed places with the man riding behind him so that she could keep a better eye on the chap. Lilith was tight lipped and grim, and became so occupied with the dying man as they pressed forward, that she paid less attention to their surroundings and none at all to her company. She wasn't really leading any more either. Hope that one of the others has an idea of where to go.

Lilith pointedly did not answer him. Instead, she suddenly decided: "We'll stop here for the night. I can't be sure, but I don't think they had enough men to pursue us without opening their borders further."

Lilith glared at Tesunie as if he had done something rude. "Would you please help him down?" she asked, since the injured man was apparently too out of it to help himself. Yeah, he was getting pretty pale.

Lilith's mouth pulled down at the corners in puzzlement. She deliberately finished aiding the injured man to the ground along with Tesunie's help, laying him on his back. "He's bleeding to death," she informed Tesunie. "I have nothing for him. If you can do something, that's on your conscious."

She straightened up between Tesunie and the others, then turned away from Tesunie. "Who is going to help me with preparing food?" she demanded.

Tesunie places his hands over the man, and a soft glow starts to emanate from his hands. The wounds on the man slowly starts to close, and seal up. As the man stops bleeding, Tesunie's hand stops glowing. The physical wounds are closed and healed, though they are a pink of new flesh. Minlee will have my butt for this... Tesunie thinks, still believing that he will be going home shortly.

The man coughs, and he is still very pale. It seems like the healing wasn't effective, though looking at the mans body, you would think he was physically uninjured. "His wounds are sealed.... but he is still so pale. What is wrong? I healed him to the best of my abilities?" Tesunie says the last part quietly, about his healing.

Lilith's brief shake of the head and pursed lips accented her decision. "No. Just us." While the two were trying to have this conversation, Tesunie was working on the dying man behind Lilith.

Although the man's outer wounds were healed, Lilith suspected that the deeper damage had not been touched. The boy was only fourteen and couldn't have more than a few years of experience patching minor wounds, she reasoned. It was better than nothing in most cases, since most wounds in playful combat were not very deep. Yet in this case, even if Tesunie had managed to reach all the way in with his inexperienced hands, Gale was right; the man had lost too much blood, and was going to die.

"See to the others," Lilith commanded the two of them. If she had held out some hope that Tesunie could save the man, she felt foolish for it now. As the assumed leader of the group, she had let the boy waste whatever magic he could wield on a task too large for him, when he could be attempting to help others.

"What is your name again?" she asked Nathien. "Mine is Lilith. I have some of my own provisions, dried meat and the like, but we should not waste this opportunity to scout out behind us for our enemy, and with any luck, to shoot down a rabbit or two to supplement our journey. There are more people than I had thought there would be..." And one of the horses who had been carrying much of their food supplies had run off because of the chimera.

Gale fixed Tesunie in the eye for a moment with an unfathomable black stare before nodding once. "There are others..." He would wait until Tesunie moved on to the other walking wounded, however long that took, before crossing the dying man's arms over his chest and reciting a short battlefield prayer. Gale's face was set and pale as ever throughout, as though he were very familiar with death. However, he seemed somewhat awkward as he prayed, stopping and stumbling over half remembered words.

"I'm, Nathien." He paused for a bit. "So then, you would like me to go scout out the area behind us and make sure we weren't followed then? It shouldn't be to hard, considering that they would likely be on horses." He might have been relatively new to hunting, but horses are always easier to track then humans any day. "Actually, if you're afraid of trackers, you might want to ditch the horses as soon as possible. They make it easier to track then you would like us to be."