12-27-2015, 04:33 AM
The smell of foul smoke. A dry soot coated throat. A cough. A cough meant he was still alive. His heart leapt as he wheezed wildly; he felt sick, sick and barely alive. With numbed limbs he grasped at his throat. Water... He needed. He just coughed. Interrupting his own thoughts as a clump of red and black shot from his mouth, impacting the ground as he cleaned his hands the best he could and wiped clumped soot from his eyes as well. Finally he looked up. His small home a burned out husk. Smoke still slowly rising from it's embers within the metal shell. A small mew was let out and he turned to look at the broken body of Sandrise, still alive, but barely, as she lay on her side, blood streaming from the edge of her mouth to the ground.
It hurt, everything hurt, but he needed to help. He couldn't lose anyone. Especially not her; he reached out for her, his hands didn't reach far enough. It forced him to drag himself forwards until finally, with ginger touch, he pulled her into his arms, and cradled her softly. He whispered words of comfort, Words of power as she was fortified from death. He could manage no more right now as he felt her relax only slightly, feeling her body double in weight as the words left on his breath. She was heavy, but he pushed one leg into the ground, pushing up to one knee, then slowly rising. He felt his heart still thumping within him, looking around the trees that surrounded him, his body screamed at him as he pushed himself, one foot at a time, into a walk. A soft "shhh-shh-shh." Hushing his own body as his pain numbed itself.
It hurt, everything hurt, but he needed to help. He couldn't lose anyone. Especially not her; he reached out for her, his hands didn't reach far enough. It forced him to drag himself forwards until finally, with ginger touch, he pulled her into his arms, and cradled her softly. He whispered words of comfort, Words of power as she was fortified from death. He could manage no more right now as he felt her relax only slightly, feeling her body double in weight as the words left on his breath. She was heavy, but he pushed one leg into the ground, pushing up to one knee, then slowly rising. He felt his heart still thumping within him, looking around the trees that surrounded him, his body screamed at him as he pushed himself, one foot at a time, into a walk. A soft "shhh-shh-shh." Hushing his own body as his pain numbed itself.