Kate ran into the warehouse and found a guard..she read the note again. "Sir parcel for Lady Katheryn Lyons. She said it would be in the animal pens."<br/>Kate watched as a man with a bullwhip was chained, the captain was seized by guards. All the goods and the ship was gated. This had not happened for months. The slaves were removed from their bonds and mages were called upon to heal. Kate was lead by the guard to the animal pens, "If this one be yours milady he ain't good. Mages done give up."<br/><br/>Kate rushed inside and placed the blanket over the half-naked man in threadbare breeches. He was a swollen mass of dried blood, sweat, and sinew. He was thin, pale, and fading fast. The mage sat down and held him to her. He was barely breathing and his pulse faint. "Gahh! What did they do to him."<br/><br/>She cradled his shackled left hand. It was freezing. She closed her eyes and whispered spell words, "Alkim acrourm, skla, aumn, ni." and repeated it three times. "You will not die on me. I have not lost a patient yet."<br/><br/>The mana she produced naturally was released from her hand was absorbed in his left hand. Blistered, bloody, and heavily calloused, the heat was slowly entered his body and penetrated deep into his ice cold body. He was barely hanging on a thread when his ravaged body began to heal and warmth was restored. Healing would take minutes to move him would be too risky. The blood in his veins took time to warm and his body would thaw. Blood pumped to a normal heart beak took over 30 minutes. She waved her hand over his shackles and fell to the floor with a thud as did his ankle chains. His ankles and wrists were crimson with angry festered cuts. His face a bloody bruised mess. She felt a lump swelling on the side of his head. "His eyes were blackened. She places her hand on his forehead and propped his head against her chest." With her hands-free, she reached into her bag of holding and opened a jar of salve and spread the waxy substance over his parched, swollen, and bloody lips. She then poured water from a ceramic container into her hand and drops dripped over his lips. "Come on, taste. Take a breath."