She placed her hand on his leg. At the moment, he was wearing a camouflage suit covered with mud. Even though camouflage suits tend to be dirt-resistant, you could still tell that there was blood on it and her fingers felt damp where they made contact.
She turned around and dug a few herbal plants out of her bamboo basket. Placing them in her mouth, she began to chew. This was a unique hemostatic grass native to the mountains. Everyone in the village knew about it. When children cut themselves or got wounds, adults would apply this hemostatic grass to their injuries and the bleeding would stop immediately. This grass also had anti-inflammatory properties.
There was a smell of blood about the hemostatic grass.
Human saliva has certain disinfectant properties; she resolved to sacrifice herself a little.
