[RPG] [SL]Wounded...heart...soul and...body

[kathleen stalnaker]

kathleen stalnaker <leannan_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:  Hoshi was uneasy as she set out for Ahael...equipment damage was  high...but she'd had to make a choice...pay the troops or repair their  equipment...she couldn't do both...so she paid them....when the orders  came to move out to Ahael...she relayed them to her troops and they  moved out...unsure the equipment would be enough...but it was at least  something...and they needed to continue to protect what was  theirs...and Ahael still flew the banners of Svunnetland...

When  the arrow pierced her armour she was not surprised...when the soldier  bearing down on her hit her in the side of the head she was not  surprised...and as she lost concsiousness she saw Aimee...strike out at  all who came near her with a vengence...she hoped Aimee would have  sense enough to walk away and let Hoshi die on the battlefield if it  came to a fight for her life...

She had vague memories of hands  pulling at her...of being lifted and moved...she had vague memories of  the smell of the herbs the healers used...voices muffled...before she  let herself fall into the black oblivion that beckoned her...



  The fever started slowly...and built in intensity as the  afternoon and evening progressed...Hoshi was burning up...and the  healers were having trouble keeping her cool...she tossed in her  sleep...called out...and while Aimee sat at her side...the healers  continued to tend the Queen's wounds...
  
  In her fevered sleep Hoshi felt as if she would be consumed by  flames...lost and alone...though she was not...she cried out...if she  had been a little girl still her fateher would have answered her  cries..but even in these fever driven dreams she knew she was a grown  woman...she knew her father was dead...she knew her home was lost to  her...she wondered what there was left to wake up for...a part of her  whispered that she should just let go...and sleep...while a part of her  screamed that she must fight and live on...the gentle calm of the  whisper seemed to be pulling her...and Aimee sat...with tears in her  eyes...begging Hoshi to fight....to live...the wound was not that  serious....
  
  "Hoshi...don't you give up...it is not your time...this is not the  wound to fell a Queen....this is not the wound to lay you low..."
  
  The healers stood back...and watched...they had tended the body...it was the heart and soul that needed tending now...



"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

from Sabriel by Garth Nix

 



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