"Iluvatar!" Rie gasped as Barodir collapsed. His arm looked terrible; soaked with blood, it didn't look like the flow had stopped yet. And it was very swollen. Rie ran up to him, catching him before he could slide off the table and perhaps harm himself even more.
Her fingers trembling a little, she tore his sleeve away from the wound and searched it. She didn't know why; she was no healer. Even so, she knew that it was a grave wound, and that Barodir had lost a lot of blood. Her father and brothers were Rangers, but she had never seen them actively wounded: they had always been bandaged and fixed up before she saw them. Still, this was a worse wound than any in her family had ever received. Her breath began to come in quick, panicked gasps as the horrible thought that Barodir might die arose in her mind. She could hardly find her voice to cry for help.
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"Oh, my god! I care so little, I almost passed out!" --Dr. Cox, "Scrubs"
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