[It's unconscious with how his own tail seems to wag when Ernesto's does. He's still not quite used to his appendages, but he's a little less angry about his physical changes.

He had grabbed an extra shirt or two, but he didn't grab them to wear, but to use as a washcloth. He soaks one in the water and starts to wring out the water from it.] This will probably sting. [The other will just have to bear with it as he carefully cleans the injury.]

I wouldn't call it luck. Plenty of people who resisted seemed pretty skilled in their own way. [The same could be said about the opposing side though.] Your injury looked well taken care of in the first place. Whoever tended to it must have had experience in handling injuries too. It's important we have people who can handle these kind of things as much as having people who can fight.