[ He hands over the medicine and the thin cloth he's been tearing to strips. ]

Just follow what I've been doing. Cloth in the medicine, then over the burns.

[ A lot of the work is already done, and it's easy enough to tell how much of it works by looking at it. Even if the Belmonts almost certainly never understood why the medicine works. There's something in there that dissolves the holy oil that the cables were coated with to keep it from eating into the skin further, that's the time-sensitive part. After that, the cloth dries solid but flexible and keeps outside things from irritating or infecting the damaged skin. The Belmonts may have had no idea about germ theory, but they've had a long history of dealing with injuries and a lot of opportunity for trial and error. ]

I'll come find you at dawn. You have until then to do this yourself.