His eyes are rolling. His body sluggish. There's blood all over her saddle and, looking back the way they've come, with the expert focus of her training, she can see spots of the trail of blood that has flown from them on this way. She'll need to see to that as well, between leaving and getting back, and doing both in time enough for him not to pass and out and die in her absence.
Her name -- that name -- still punches into the soft of her heart, the filigree of her lungs, taking out more than it puts in. But Oliver's saying it as he's stumbling, and she's shouting, "Hey! Hey!" Trying to catch him even as he's falling. Though it's in the middle of it that she knows down is the better direction than up. They aren't far from the front of the cave, but no one would have cause to come down this way. No one had for years.
It's easier to just help him down, rather than back. He probably can't hear her any better than he can talk, but she tells him anyway, once he's down on the hard ground. "You have to stay here. For your own safety. I'll be back as soon as I can."
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His eyes are rolling. His body sluggish. There's blood all over her saddle and, looking back the way they've come, with the expert focus of her training, she can see spots of the trail of blood that has flown from them on this way. She'll need to see to that as well, between leaving and getting back, and doing both in time enough for him not to pass and out and die in her absence.
Her name -- that name -- still punches into the soft of her heart, the filigree of her lungs, taking out more than it puts in. But Oliver's saying it as he's stumbling, and she's shouting, "Hey! Hey!" Trying to catch him even as he's falling. Though it's in the middle of it that she knows down is the better direction than up. They aren't far from the front of the cave, but no one would have cause to come down this way. No one had for years.
It's easier to just help him down, rather than back. He probably can't hear her any better than he can talk, but she tells him anyway, once he's down on the hard ground. "You have to stay here. For your own safety. I'll be back as soon as I can."