When Jonayla reached the man from the sky, she was almost certain that he would die and was distraught. This would have been the first proper injury that her mother would let her treat on her own. She had said so when she had arrived. It would mean that she wouldn't have to do it and Jonayla had to learn sometime. She had been fed plants and their medicinal uses since she was a little girl and as a result knew almost as much as her mother at her tender sixteen years. Jonayla didn't want her first proper patient to die.
No matter how much they knew, Jonayla was a better healer than most full Zelandoni and she had only been an acolyte for a year. The only reason she wasn't the best was because her mother was first among those who serve the great earth mother, Doni. Although Ayla knew as much as she did now when she was Jonayla's age, she had had a very different childhood and had had to remember much better than any of her kind could to be seen as an form of intelligent. She also developed muscle strength better than any woman and many men because the people she grew up with were physically stronger than the people she lived with now.
This was how the first was able to pick the strange man up, on her own, and transport him to the Zelandonia lodge in the middle of the summer camp. The lodge had no windows, the only natural light came from the smoke hole at the top of the roof and the door which often had a leather drape tied across it. This, of course, was done for effect, as most things the Zelandonia did were. The hearth in the middle provided the best light and was also the warmest spot in the huge lodge.
The man woke up long enough to drink some hastily prepared broth and to confuse everyone by speaking in a strange language to them and smiling before fainting again.
Ayla opened his sleeping mouth to pour down some pain relieving tea and then sat back, letting her daughter continue. Jonayla gently probed the man's body enough to be able to say with confidence that both his legs were broken, along with one of his arms and that he was lucky not to have cracked open his skull. He was in a great deal of pain and was suffering from shock. She also knew that right now they needed to set the bones and let him heal.
As Jonayla felt the first leg, her mother looked at her daughter and sighed, she didn't really want her daughter to treat the man but she had promised. The younger healer asked her mother to hold the man's right hip as she pulled the leg back into place and set it with a splint. She did the same with the left leg and his left arm. Jonayla then felt for his heartbeat and found two, one from the right side of his chest and one from the left.