Fallen Otter

Characters: Aikuen, Fira

Location: Moledeep

Moledeep: Entrance Tunnel

Its now morning after the run in with the Fox, and Aikuen is still passed out against the tree. The tree that he fell by was near Moledeep's entrance tunnel, but he didn't know it, or else he might have made it inside. His breathing is still raspy as he unaware and unable to do anything. The dry blood is caked all over his front and the side of his face, where streaks are created by the tears he shed last night. His broken wrist lay to the side of him, where it is at an angle that couldn't be normally done. The muscle that was pulled out of his shoulder, has sealed back into the skin, but the very top of the muscle strands can be seen popping out. He is having nightmares, in his state... he wishes... that he could wake up or do anything.

Fira meanwhile has woken up to discover neither Aikuen nor Kentar had come back yet. She was starting to worry last night but now it's harder to convince herself that she's just being paranoid. She's grabbed her spear and filled up her bag with stuff from the infirmary just in case before she heads out to look for them. First moment she steps out the door she notices the smell of blood on the air. It's faint and she has a good nose but it's still hard to pinpoint the source and she stops to sniff for a moment, closing her eyes and just concentrating on it...maybe it's not them, maybe they got up early and someone had a little accident...she's not even convincing herself. Over there. Her eyes snap open again and she marches off for the trees, eyes flicking about and continuing to sniff.

The flies are now beginning to investigate the downed otter, and Aikuen can feel them crawling over his body, and into his wounds. He tries to wake up, but can't. Another tear falls down onto his chest, in sadness and frustration.

Fira isn't far away from him now. The smell of blood's bit too strong now but the flies actually prove to be useful as there's a lot hanging about that one tree. She heads over to investigate and finds him, her eyes widening as she breaks into a run with a strangled "Aik!" she drops the spear, tosses the bag down next to him and falls into a crouch in front of him, trying not to madly panic. Has to fix things. She places her paws on his head, going to open one of his eyes, judge if he's awake or not "Aikuen! Can you hear me?" eyes doing a quick dance over him, assess the damage.

Aikuen can hear Fira's voice and tries to yell back, but still no movement or sound comes from the otter. When she gets to him and places her paw on his head to open the eye, the pupil moves from down, to directly into her eyes. He has to wake... He has a chance to live now... WAKE! but all he can manage is to cough up blood. Fira's here... Live... Is all he can think of now.

Fira assumes he has some consciousness when he looks at her, seems like a good sign. Coughing up blood does not. No time to panic, mustn't panic. Alright, she starts with the shoulder, cleaning the wound out, trying to push things back in place before sewing the thing up and bandaging it up tightly with a couple of splits. Doesn't want that moving when the muscle's injured. All the while she talks "Can't leave you alone for a minute can I? Well I'm definitely not going to until you're well again and you better get well again. Still got a wedding to plan and I can't do that alone"

Aikuen has now gotten the ability to keep the one eye, she opened, to stay open and he watches her. Good thing his whole body is numb, or when she put that muscle back, he would have screamed bloody murder. When she says the last part, another tear falls down. He wishes he could say he is sorry, for the life of him, he wishes he could. He tries to talk again, "Ummsor...sorr..." but stops as more blood bursts from his mouth.

Fira is moving onto the paw when she catches sight of the blood, only just noticing it's an attempt at words. She looks really worried now, going to open his other eye after a little stroke of the cheek, checking something "Shussh, it's alright, just relax. You're going to be fine, I'm here"

Aikuen when the other eye is open, and with the stroke of the cheek, He becomes out of his state of immobility with a jolt. He now begins to breath irregularly, and is beginning to shake, as the numbness is wearing off and the pain is returning. He smiles weakly, and reaches out to her with his good paw. His attempt fails and the arm falls into his lap. He is still looking at her, trying to remain conscience.

Fira grabs for the paw a second later herself, clinging onto it and with the other paw she desperately digging in the bag for pain killers and then he collapses. Barely feels like she can breath until she checks and good, still alive. She still goes for the pain killers, nice liquid one which she pours into his mouth. Hopefully it'll help a little if he wakes up again. She tries to calm down again, force the tears back and focus on his paw, reset the bones, splint it all up and bandage over it. She checks for anymore obvious wounds, fixing them up, cleaning off the blood, feeling about his ribs and listening to his chest. Try and work out how much she should worry about the coughing up blood. Checks in his mouth to in case he just bit something or broke a tooth. Eventually she decides it'd be best to get him home, just a matter of how. She tosses the bag back on her shoulder before going to carefully lift him up by the shoulders. He's just going to have to cope with being dragged back to the infirmary.