We've Been Attacked!
The sound of Hal's serrated sword edge sawing through San's shoulder blades attracted the attention of so many on the scene.
It was not that the sawing was loud, just that for some reason, the battle became something they all wanted to watch.
Hal's faction, while prepared to continue still paused to watch it all happen, for even after the deep cut in his shoulder and his dominant arm no less, San merely groaned, transferred his saber to his left hand and tried to slash at Hal.
Hal stepped back to avoid the strike and could not help but feel a little resentful for having being denied the opportunity to follow up on the attack.
However, his moving back provided San the breathing room to quickly retrieve a pill from his spatial pouch and swallow it down.
Hal recognized the pill as a Mending pill. Just like the type that he had gotten from the Holger Estate.
Another one of the Master's generosities.