oh baby, that was quite a punch; could somebody check my pulse?

The pain was almost too much. As his own blood dripped into his eyes, the vision of the flowers began to fade and turn into a dark, red blur. He had hardly even noticed when Indigo approached, but felt the stinging pain when pressure was placed over what was left of his ears and whined softly. The child's words went unheard, though he felt like he could hear the blood leaving his ears. A loud humming that deafened everything else, but hardly caused him pain compared to the rest of his injuries. Why had he been so stupid to try and attack the bear, instead of allowing it to chase him off of the territory? His mind raced between things he could have done better, things he should have done, and even things he shouldn't have. In the moment, he felt stupid for even trying to gift the Empress flowers, but had he not, well who knows what the bear would have done. Maybe he should have just called for help and kept the bear distracted until backup arrived.

His vision would fade in and out quickly, but the cold water caused him to yelp and writhe beneath Iolaire as she wrapped the furs around his head. He blinked madly, trying to clear his vision, but even if it worked his vision was too blurry to make out what was going on. His struggling only made the blood rush faster even, weakening him more in the few seconds he tried. His tongue fell limp from his mouth, exhausted and attempting to pant from the stress and fear. He knew he was being helped, he could pick up the faint scents of familiar pack mates through the stench of his own blood, but it hardly made it any less painful or stressful. The fear of the bear had hardly left his system, and now the fear of losing his own life was using what adrenaline he had left to function.

The pressure on his ribs was by far the worst he'd felt, despite how light it was, but he bit back another yelp and instead flinched under the contact. Another soft whine escaped as he was tiring out, his body slowly losing any energy it had to fight anymore. No more than a moment later a bitter substance was placed into his mouth and he wanted to gag but hardly had the strength. Instead he smacked at it, attempting to remove it from his taste buds the best he could. Thankfully, whatever it was had began to work and some of his pain was fading away though he was mistaking it for the end. He didn't want to die, not like this. His legs kicked and pawed at the ground as best they could with what little energy he had left but it didn't last long. Exhaustion was taking over and it wouldn't be long now before he fell unconscious.

His body would begin to relax and his breathing slowed again from the frantic pace it had taken. The scent of her finally worked it's way through the blood and scent of others and he'd managed to blink away the blood from his vision and found her blurry form. He blinked more, trying to clear his vision and focus on her but failed and let out another soft whine.

"Speech!"

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