Chapter 3
After Jae-ha finished watch, he woke Shin-ah to take over. The snow began to slow and everything was quiet. Staring into the night, he looked for anything abnormal. The first thing he saw was after the snow had stopped falling. It was far away but, there was something wrong. He went to awaken Hak who was going to take the last watch.
After saying that he needed to check something out, Shin-ah headed out to see the situation up close. In the mouth of a cave, there was a fire lit. Someone had been sitting next to it, prompting him to go closer. When he got close enough to see it clearly, he noticed that the situation was worse than he had originally thought. It was the girl they had seen two days before. But, she looked very sick. Worried, Shin-ah headed back to get help.
Upon returning, he told Hak what he had seen and they both agreed that it was serious. So, they went to wake up Yoon. Hak covered Yoon's mouth, both waking him up, and preventing him from making noise that would awaken the others. Quietly, they exited the tent, and explained what had happened. Yoon agreed to do what he could and followed Shin-ah to the cave.
The girl was lying on the ground, her breathing uneven. Yoon felt her forehead and checked her pulse. He decided that it was simply a cold. In order to help her, he began rummaging through his pack to see if he had the ingredients to make the right medicine. After a little bit, Yoon realized that he had run out of the Senjusou plant that they had received from Captain Gi-Gan. So, he began rummaging to see if he had another herbal medicine that could help her recover.
While rummaging, he felt someone tap his shoulder. He looked down and saw that the girl was awake, and trying to sit up. When she saw that she had gotten his attention, she weakly pointed towards the back of the cave. Looking in the direction she pointed, Yoon saw some light peeking through the wall, illuminating beautiful flowers.
"Is that…..?" he began.
After walking over, he saw that he was right. It was what he had thought. Here, it the back of the cave, there were Senjusou plants. There was a very large amount that grew in neat rows. Yoon picked some and began making them into medicine. Once he had fed her the medicine, she fell asleep and her breath began to even out. Her fever also went down significantly.
They elected to watch over the girl until she woke up, to make sure that she was fine. While they did they looked around the cave. In the right walls, there were shelves cut out of the stone. These shelves held up many different types of medicines and dried food provisions. There were all kinds of fabric folded neatly in a corner. Near the folded fabrics, there were two sheets of cloth laid atop each other with a third folded one on top. They decide d that that was her bed, and laid her on one and put the other fabric over her as a blanket. Along the other side were weapons, hung on the walls. There were several bows, a lot of arrows, knives and a lot of swords. Underneath these weapons, were piles upon piles of dry tinder.
When they looked out of the side of the cave with the Senjusou plants and saw a steep cliff. Looking down, there was a frozen lake below. They returned to the fire after observing the whole of the cave.