Dangers of the Mountain
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05-27-2020, 06:11 PM
Malalia listened closely as the wolf demonstrated the difference between an intact bone and a broken one. The procedure sounded easy enough, on its face, but the girl had mostly worked with poultices, treating cuts and scrapes and some deeper gashes here and there. Never internal injuries like this. When Paladin indicated for her to feel for herself, she placed her paw forward, brows furrowed in concentration. The normal rib curved in one smooth, hard movement beneath his skin. The broken one jutted up unnaturally against it, cresting in a tiny little hill where the break was made inside. She was doing her best to think of Cairo as just another patient, but the note about pain did soothe her, somewhat, and she committed the detail to memory. As much as it had rattled her to see him, he wasn't dead, or even close to it. When Paladin asked for her to check for more breaks, she pinned her ears, and again rain her paw along his ribcage. How many breaks can you find… It almost sounded like a game, the way he had phrased it, though she would rather be playing anything else right about now. She pinned her ears as she felt another inconsistency, a protrusion against the skin. “There’s… maybe a second break after the first you showed me,” she said uncertainly, indicating the hard bump four ribs back. The rest were intact, as far as she could tell, but it was possible she missed something. “None of them feel soft, though. What does it mean if they're soft?” |