As the cat lady inquired about medicine with Louise, she turned down her phone and looked at Anthena with a sweet smile. "I do have some knowledge about medicine. My father taught me herbs during my forest hunting with him, and Lord Thernous taught me something more advanced with his knowledge."
Athena listened to Louise talk about her experience with medicine. At first, Athena was hesitant. Herb gathering was fine in a pinch and good for general first aid. But for the wound Athena had, it didn't feel like enough. However, some of the worries she had were calmed by the mention of Thernous. Athena learned that Louise was under his employ, but she didn't know that the lord was sharing some of his medical knowledge with the young ward. "Do you think you can? Do you have everything you need? It would probably be better than the embedded leather, but I'm afraid if it's removed, the bleeding won't be stopped again."
"I usually tend to my fellow wards since I was joined under Lord Thernous. Erwin is mostly the one who gets frequently sent to me to be tended to. My medical bag can first aid three people, including myself. It is better to have it until the doctor on our team has arrived," Louise replied.
Athena paused to give it some thought. It was difficult because now that her attention was more focused on it, the lingering pain in her arm was starting to take over her mind. Closing her eyes tightly, Athena nodded. "Alright. You're probably right. It's probably better to have something done now than wait for it to get worse," said Athena, letting her face relax once again. She winced as she lifted her arm, testing its strength. Slowly, she placed it back down as she awaited Louise.
Louise nodded at Athena. As the catwoman trusted her arm on her, she grabbed her medical bag and opened it. Readied up her clean gauze. I cut off the whole leather arm and started removing the foreign object, trying to minimize the pain that cat women have, just like her regular job during the time she was a ward of Lord Thernous. She used the tourniquet method with a belt and strap tightly wrapped after the elbow on the affected forearm. Wrapped up with a clean gauze on the bleeding area until no blood is shown at the gauze layer level. She then kept the arm above the heart level of the cat woman.
As Louise finished with the wrapping, some of the pain subsided, providing some relief. It still hurt to move or touch, but the odd numbing sensation disappeared. The wrapping did darken with blood, but thankfully it did not continue bleeding. Athena could wait easier for either Thernous or the doctor.