She returned to the gentle handsome man, the younger of the two. She put her ear against his muscular chest and sighed with relief when she heard his heart beating.
"This one is still alive!" she said as if relieved.
"This one, as well!" the others confirmed about Lloyd.
The pretty novice ripped her plain white dress and wet it in the river then wiped the young man's cuts and bruises.
He stirred but never came to.
The other novice ripped her dress, too, and rendered care to the other man. The third nun looked around, keeping a vigil in the event that those that did this to these two men might return and inflict further harm upon all of them. She held onto the rope that was tied around the cow's neck.
"We have to take these men back to the Abbey, my children!" the first nun told them.
The other non-avowed, with her big beautiful eyes, questioned the safety of doing such a thing but the nuns accepted taking the men back to Gothal.
The crow was still hopping around Boyce's body but the young novice didn't chase it away. She helped the other four women lift the men onto the cow and they took them back to the Abbey, inside of Gothal.