"Regardless of whether or not you should have taken precautions, the fault lies with the ones who attacked you," Raine said, absently annoyed on Jackie's behalf. "Valdis, I assume you're not hurt?" She hadn't noticed the hound favoring anything, and in any case she regenerated, but anomalies had occurred before. She rested the butt of her staff on the ground and surveyed them both once more, just in case.