The forsworn grumbled something in his native, foreign tongue and gently pushed the redguard on the shoulder to try and get her back down to rest, (something that she did herself eventually anyway). He proceeded to roll his eyes at her question, she had been with him the majority of the way; did it look like he had had time to stop off and grab their foreign armours for them?
Herne glared as the man returned and took the potion that he had placed in the redguards hand and threw it behind him into the large brazier. The plumes of red smoke that rose from the burning solution were heady and pungent and Herne almost gagged from its unfamiliar smell.
He didn't trust outsiders potions...
Besides, since the sting itself had created such a hard, angry boil, a potion which one had to swallow would have done no good any way.
Instead, the forsworn trusted his own salves that he had learnt from his kindred shamans and healers. He continued to grind the pastes, gradually converting them from a gritty consistency to a smoother, buttery texture. There were three salves that he was tending to, each a different shade of red from a deep oxblood to a red that bordered on salmon pink - yet only one of them smelt, at least, a little pleasant.
But he wasn't making them for air fresheners...
Taking one of the bowls, that was made out of the cap of a Nord skull, he wiped the caked blood off his hands on the stone edge of the altar and then dipped his fingers in the deep red solution. Then he took his dagger, slit the risen, swollen boil, created by the toxic stinger, just a little then proceded to clean the area with a clean, damp cloth and smear the smooth paste over the top afterwards, so it was able to be absorbed into the otherwise well protected area of festering toxicity.
He had just smeared salve of cure poison on the wound, a solution that he had seen the hagravens use on wounded warriors with great effect. It may have looked primitive but he had seen it in action before when dealing with posions.
The other two, in their similar skull cap bowls, were for later use in restoring and then fortifying the health of the wounded woman.