'Til all my sleeves are stained red

Blood was coating her pale fur, the liquid making the texture of her fur greasy and disgusting. She had been shouldered off her paws by the stranger, and now she knew that this stranger would have blood on her paws. Soft pants of pain escaped Ballad's jaws, including a few soft whimpers. When the wolf helping asked her name, Ballad took a moment to respond. "My name? My name is Ballad, Ballad Destruction. And......I don't have a pack. That's why I came here. So I could be in a pack." Ballad struggled to keep her eyes open from all the blood loss. If she made it through this, then she knew that she would sleep a lot. That was what she had learned from when her missing paw had first became injured. Her thoughts were broken by two wolves, one coming faster than the other. "I didn't see any ponds nearby, at least on the side I had been on." Pain made her wince a little.

The other wolf dropped something at her head, and told her to eat it. Apparently, it would ease any pain the snow hasn't already numbed. Ballad leaned over and began to eat the herb, gagging a little at the bitter taste. But she didn't say anything, only continued to eat. Maybe the wolf could help her even more. Ballad smelt the horsetail and managed to wag her tail a little, before she lowered her head to the ground. Suddenly, everything was black, and even the voices and pain went away.

EXIT BALLAD THROUGH LOST CONSCIOUSNESS

"Speech"