Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29461586-20150206093315/@comment-5583506-20150208024037

(I was once shot with an arrow through my left shoulder on an archery range, so Rikki's experience and pain is something I can relate to on a personal level... XD)

Rikki crawled up on the northern shore. She wasn't really sure of where she was, but it was cold. Her leg ached. As she dragged it out of the freezing water she soon noticed that a bolt had pierced right through it.

She stare at the gaping wound with widened eyes. It was the first time she had been wounded like this. The bolt had gone straight through the flesh, but luckily it had missed the bone. She could she the tip potruding on the other side.

Wounds like this were only something she had heard about in stories before, never did she imagine that it could actually happen. And to her of all people!

"It's... it's alright, Rikki!" she assured herself with an unsteady voice. "It... it can't be that bad, can it?"

Her hand trembled as she approached the wound. Blood was still pulsating out of the open folds. Her fingers gently touched the tip of the bolt. First mistake... Even though the bolt barely moved, a sting of pain shot through her entire leg and she groaned and held back a snivel.

"Okay! Okay!" she said and held her breath. "Maybe... maybe the bolt can remain there for now, yes? Rikki just needs to... to find someplace warm... someplace where the nasty assassins won't find her?"

She tried to stand up. Second mistake... As she tumbled to the ground the bolt moved even further around inside her loin, causing her to cry out in pain. She bit herself in the lower lip, until it started bleeding.

"Curse it!" she groaned. "The bolt must go!"

She steadied herself and tried to sit up without causing further friction inside the wound. "Okay, here we go", she mumbled and tried to hold her leg steady with her left hand, as her right grasped the bolt from the opposite side and tried to pull it out."

Third mistake...

She screamed in pain and her eyes were filled with tears of agony. A burning pain sang through her entire body and she just wanted it to end. She could barely breathe, yet she continued to pull and twist until she could barely feel her own leg... or her own fingers... Ultimately, she had to stop before she passed out.

"It... hurts..." She sobbed and tried to crawl away on her available arm, but it failed her and she collapsed to the ground with her right hand still clutched around the shaft of the bolt. "It hurts so much! Damn, assassins!"

When she had rested her head for a while and felt how all her sensations came back to her, she started to move again. She had spotted a cave further down the stream. Hopefully it wasn't inhabited, and it would serve as an excellent spot to remove the bolt for good.

Underground nobody would hear her screams...