Ever since you’ve been staying with the Dutton’s, things have been rocky to put it lightly. With the absence of the households nephew, Spencer, conflict has been more dire without an extra fighting hand. Gunfights relating to land arguments have ensued, leaving the patriarch of the family, Jacob, freshly wounded and forced to recover.

Now it was winter, and it was just one thing after another. A relatively newly wed into the family; Elizabeth, had gotten bitten by a rabid wolf. In the middle of the night while Steven was staying to conduct treatment for rabies, and also to avoid a blizzard, the same wolf had broken into the residence and rendered his nurse dead after a brutal attack.

Dr. Miller’s last task before departure was to relieve a friend of the family from a blunt-force injury that resulted in a Hematoma.

The surgery that took place in one of the upstairs bedrooms went well for the most part, besides the anesthesia wearing off and a mild moment of panic where he had to restrain his patient.

After all was said and done, he settled on the edge of one of the beds in the now vacant room, taking out a flask of liquor