Salem forced his eyes closed, and then slowly opened them, breathing. He had to maintain control if he was going hunting, especially here.
"Understood. Make sure people are careful. If they took our food, they might have made getting more harder too, or more dangerous."
He leaped off the chair and then looked up at her. "I don't want to lose any more of us." Something about being pushed to this edge, to this point, centered Salem, and filled him with resolve.
"And if you see Mercy, please tell her I'd like her to see if there are any big time sedatives in the infirmary, like for animals. With dangerous things to hunt, setting traps may be the only way to make things even."