"If you've parchment and ink, I think I manage that," Maxwell offered even as he stepped around to grip Adelaide's staff again. "My hands are the most expendable at the moment."

He could poke and squish with the best of them, but the actual healers would get more out of it than he would.

"One, two,... three," he counted down, and with a little grunt of effort, helped heave the body onto the new path and began to ease it away from the water.