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 Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:50 am
Lily, feeling useless, stumbled around the house in the dark, trying to find anything she coulduse to help. Her fingers clasped a candle, and nearby she found something resembling matches. Lighting it, she set it near ilandere, Izzy and Themba.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 3:57 pm
Springing into actions, Izzy lept up and crossed the room in several strides. Kneeling next to Themba she examined the stricken face of Ilandere.
"First Aid! Of course." Hurridly, Izzy lept up again and grabbed the water the Themba had asked for along with the first aid kit. Speaking quickly, she gestured to the others.
"Lily." She said gently, "I need you to please hold Ilandere's wrists. Like Themba said, this dis-infectant is really going to hurt, and we can't have her moving around aggrivating the wound further."
"Themba. I need you to hold down her legs. I doubt one of us would like a good kick in the face from what I've seen Ilandere do." Joking matter aside, she then spoke to Ilandere.
"Now." Izzy said softly, taking her place at her side. "I need to you put this in your mouth. It's just a piece of leather. It'll give you something to bite on instead of your tongue. I'll let you know when I am about to apply the dis-infectant. You can do this Ilandere. I have trust in you." And I'm not going to lose you.
Handing the strip of frim leather to her, Izzy gently cut the cloth from the surrounding area of Ilandere's shoulder. Pealing it away as gently as she could, Izzy gasped as she could now fully examine the wound.
"Ilandere!" She whispered sharply. "This is not good. How could you let it get this bad? I should have treated you sooner...No wonder you have a fever." Exaimeing the injury, Izzy noticed the infection had spread. It had a sickly green ting to it.
Searching through the medical bag, Izzy found what she needed. Signialing to Lily and Themba to make sure they were ready, Izzy spoke to Ilandere. "Okay. Brace yourself."
And with a practiced medical hand, Izzy poured the dis-infectant onto her shoulder.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:28 pm
Lily quickly did as Izzy instructed, grabbing Ilandere's wrist. She held them to the floor as best she could, but Ilandere proved the stronger. One of her hands escaped her grasp.
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:38 pm
Ilandere listened to Izzy’s words, barely being able to compute what she was saying. She bit down on the leather as Lily took hold of her arms and Themba held down her legs. She could feel slight pains as Izzy took the dressings off her wound. The salve she had put on earlier had done nothing to help her shoulder. The infection must have already set in before she put it on, making the salve useless.
As the disinfectant touched her wound Ilandere could feel excruciating pains shooting along her torso. She bit down hard on the leather and her back arched involuntarily, freeing one of her arms from Lily’s grasp. She grabbed with her free hand at the bedding beneath her, trying her hardest not to swing at anybody.
She writhed in pain, trying to free herself from Themba but he would not let go. Ilandere felt herself growing weaker and weaker but the pain increased. She could barely see for the pain clouded her vision and she soon gave way to uncosciousness.
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:47 am
Lily gasped as Ilandere went limp beneath her. "Izzy, is that supposed to happen?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:13 pm
Izzy set down the bottle of dis-infectant. "I was wondering if it would. It's probably better that she's unconsious. Nothing to worry about though." Izzy said reasuring Lily with a slight smile. "It's probably best that she stays that way until I'm done clearing and re-wrapping the wound."
Making sure the lid on the dis-infectant was tightly shut, Izzy returned it to the bag. Digging through it, she found the clean cloth to wrap it and the numbing salve.
Gently taking the bowl of water and a few other clean rags, she placed on on Ilandere's forhead to help lower her fever, and another she gingerly patted at the wound. After cleaning the wound throughly, she spread the salve over it with her fore fingers. Soon after, the carefully wrapped Ilandere's shoulder with the clean cloth.
Shifting the unconsious Ilandere into a more comfortable position on the bedding, she covered her up with a blanket.
"There." Izzy said soflty. "That should do it. Hopefully her fever will break later tonight." Frowning, she glanced at the other two.
"You really should get some sleep. Both of you. Don't worry, I'll take care of her. You need your rest. I bet it's been rough on you." Smiling gently, Izzy sat in a cross-legged position next to Ilandere. Preparing herself to stay up all night if she had too.
((So. How am I doing First Aid wise? To tell you the truth, I don't think I know that much even... xD))
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:12 pm
((^_^ Pretty good! Better than I would do!!))
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Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:00 pm
((Yeah, you did great! Couldn't have written it better myself.))
When Ilandere passed out Themba let go of her ankles and sat back tiredly, allowing Izzy to do her job. When she offered to stay up and keep an eye on Ilandere Themba shook his head.
“No, Izzy. I will stay with her. You need to be awake tomorrow when Ilandere is well enough. Lily and Ilandere need you. If you are asleep then they will not be able to plan our next course of action. You are the travelers and I feel that it is not my place to make a plan to keep us going. I will stay up with Ilandere and sleep tomorrow.”
Themba placed a hand on Ilandere’s arm, her face pale and her breathing shallow. He stroked her hair and wet the cloth on her forehead again, wiping the sweat from her face. He looked back to Izzy and smiled.
“Thank you.” He said, “You have done so much. I have no way of repaying you. Ilandere, I’m sure, feels the same. She has not had someone care for her, as you have, in so long. She needs a good friend when I can’t be there. Thank you.”
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:28 pm
"If you insist." Izzy said smartly, but her face softened as she noticed Themba's simple gesture. "Ilandere's had it rough. It's that least I could do." She said quietly.
Silently, she stood, left the two alone and returned to her little corner of the room. Wrapping herself tightly, Izzy forced herself to go to sleep. But as she dozed off, she couldn't shake the strange feeling she had. Themba's words about her and the traveler's echoed in her head.
After awhile, she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:31 am
Lily laid down in a corner, and slowly her eyes closed, purely from exaustion. She'd had a very...exciting few days, and hadn't gotten any decent sleep; she's been running on pure fear and adrenaline. "G'night, Themba, Izzy," she muttered just before she dropped off.
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:49 pm
Ilandere woke up and could tell that it was late into the day for the sun shown high through the cracks in the closed window. It was cool inside despite the hot sun and the still air felt good on Ilandere’s skin. She blinked trying to remember what had happened last night, what had left her feeling so terrible. There was a cool cloth on her forehead that seemed to cool her a bit more.
She was very hot inside the blankets but was too weak to move anywhere. She looked to the corner and saw Lily and Izzy slumbering soundly, then to her side but did not see Themba. She looked around worriedly but could not find him. She laid back and closed her eyes, trying to keep awake but couldn’t and soon slept again.
~*~*~*~*~
Someone was lightly touching Ilandere’s cheek, waking her up. She opened her eyes to see Themba looking down at her. He smiled a little and stroked her hair.
“Themba?” she croaked, her throat and mouth dry, “Wha—?”
“Hold on, I’ll get you some water.” He said. He got up and returned with a cup of water. He put his hand behind her head and helped her lift up a little to drink. The water was cool and sweet, immediately quenching her thirst.
“What happened?” Ilandere asked.
“Your shoulder became infected. It has made you I’ll and you had a fever. The fever broke a couple of hours ago.” He answered.
“Where were you?” Ilandere said, “I woke up a little while ago and you were not here.”
“Oh,” Themba said uneasily, “I, uh, left.”
Ilandere was angry but had a hard time showing it without pain. “What?” She rasped, “Themba, you know how dangerous that was! You could have gotten hurt, or worse, killed!”
“I had to Ilandere.” Themba said, taking her hand, “By daybreak your fever was getting worse. I had to go get medicine. I was worried and the fever wouldn’t break. I left to get medicine and I was lucky to have gotten what I needed so quickly.”
Ilandere lay quietly, looking into Themba’s eyes. She tried to get up but could not on her own because of the pain in her shoulder. Themba helped her but was just as quickly laying her back down. As soon as she sat up her vision swirled and her head was swimming.
“Just rest Ilandere. I’ll try to wake Lily and Izzy. They will be glad to know you are better.” He said softly.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:19 am
Izzy felt the gently shaking on her shoulder as she slowly crawled into awakeness. She was definatly not a morning person. Opening her eyes, she looked up into the face of Themba.
Imediantly, she jerked upward into a sitting position. "Is everything alright?" She said hurriedly. "Ilandere?"
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:19 pm
Lily woke to Izzy's desperate voice. She opened her eyes and sat up, a bit disoriented, like she always got when moving to fast after getting up.
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:26 pm
Themba put a hand on Izzy’s shoulder to calm her.
“Everything’s fine.” He said, “Ilandere’s fine. She’s awake now. Are you two okay?”
He looked to Izzy then Lily after giving a glance to Ilandere. He worried that they had not gotten enough rest, but he wasn’t sure how much longer Ilandere was going to be able to stay awake so this seemed to have higher priority.
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:01 am
"Yeah, I feel a lot better now. Thanks," Lily said, blinking the sleep from her eyes. She sat down on a chair. "What time is it?"
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