Kerith arrives back at camp, minutes later. "What were those things? They looked to me like some kind of demonic wolves!"
Walking over to where he fought, he picks up his crossbow where he left it. Checking it for fractures, he finds none, and restores it to the place on his belt that it hung from before.
Suddenly, a thought comes to him: "Buttercup!!" He runs over to where the mounts were tied up, and finds his mule, on the ground, wounded.
Exasperated and sad, he turns to the party: "Can anything be done for her?"