Michael headed out of the kitchen to go find Jess, and he ran into Nigel in the hallway. Nigel immediately spotted the blood filled glove, and he took hold of Michael's wrist.
"What on earth did you do?" Nigel frowned.
"Oh, its just a cut. I cut my finger prepping vegetables," Michael said
"So you slapped a glove on it and kept cooking," Nigel sighed.
"Well, no. There's a couple plasters under there too."
"Well, clearly they didn't do the job. Come with me. This is going to need a sink." He took Michael downstairs to the sickbay room, and he took Michael to the sink where he pulled off the glove, letting the blood go into the sink. He cleaned Michael's hand and then got a better look at it. "Its a good thing you're not a muggle," he said. "It's not very big, but it is deep, and in an awkward spot. It would be a buggar to stitch shut. Fortunately, we don't need to do that." He used a healing spell and closed it. "I want this to heal from the inside out. It should do the trick in a moment. There we are, right as rain again. So where did Robert go?"
"I noticed the outside guard got pulled off the house, so I mentioned it to Robert, and he and Le went over a short while ago to provide some backup."
"You suspect trouble?"
"Possibly. I did notice something moving through the woods, but I couldn't see what it was. We do have a lot of wildlife here, though, so its hard to say. Clearly the guards saw it too and went to check it, but I didn't like the lack of security around the house, so I mentioned it to Robert. Since they're still over there, I take it that the guards haven't come back yet...
"Michael!" They were interrupted by the sound of shouting from the floo upstairs. Michael left the sickbay and went upstairs to the floo.
"Robert?"
"Yeah. One of Lee's men went too far into the northwestern quadrant..."
"Don't tell me. He fell off that sharp rise up there."
"I won't tell you, then. Get Hiss and see if you can get to that man. Let's see if we can't bring him back."
"Okay. I'm on it."
"Take someone with you," Robert said. "Marcus climbs. I don't remember if Jack does, but with those wolves up there, you shouldn't go up without him if you can help it."
"How are things over there?"
"Fine. We're just hanging out til Lee gets a couple back up men here. Let me know what you find."
"Will do," Michael replied, closing the floo, and went hunting for Jack.