The plan was simple enough - Denise was just going to run out briefly to help restock Skyhold’s food stores. Really, she didn’t see anything going wrong. It wasn’t as if she was going to go too far from the keep anyways; most threats should have been cleared out, right?
Wrong. She’d found a ram and taken that down, but in the process of tying it to the saddle on her horse in order to pull it back to Skyhold, wolves had appeared. It was lucky that she had heard them approaching or she may have ended up far more injured. And that was being optimistic. One had gone down before they had a chance to get too close, and another had received an injury to two legs that would keep it at bay. The problem was the third, which had come from behind.
Denise sat on the sofa in Solas’ room, a hand covering her face as she groaned. Not in pain, just embarrassment that she had been in such a grave situation. Her back was exposed, showing off several large gashes she’d received. Had a few Inquisition scouts not shown up, it was possible she wouldn’t have made it out of that situation.
"Thank you for helping, Solas," Deni had grumbled into her palm, a part of her wishing she might just stumble underneath a rock and never crawl back out. "I didn’t expect wolves to be so close. Lesson learned." And to help it sink in, she was sure the process of treating the wounds would be less than comfortable.
The gashes along her back were not the worst Solas had ever seen, but still, left untreated they surely would've turned worse. His fingers traced along the raw skin, pouring a healing spell into her. The Inquisition Scouts had done a pretty good job on stopping the bleeding, but other than a tight bandage, they had not done much else.
"I'm afraid I'm not as well versed in healing as the Inquisition's professionals," he admitted as he watched the skin slowly but surely knit back together. "It never hurts to bring a companion along even on short missions," he offered to fill the silence, moving his hands to the next claw mark. Luckily the wounds were still a little fresh and not too deep so the scars were faint. Denise's skin was so pale that no one would notice the scars anyway.
