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Post by Breanne..(: on Jun 23, 2015 18:20:05 GMT -5
Zayna “Zayna are you okay?” Levi asked, rushing over and kneeling next to me as he dropped his backpack to the ground. My own backpack weighed heavily against my back but I didn’t have the energy to take it off. “Uhm.. Yeah,” I replied, squeezing my eyes shut. “I just.. Need to take a break. Please.”
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 14:10:16 GMT -5
Levi "Um, sure. We can stop here." I said, even though we were totally exposed and still getting pelted by rain. At least we were under the trees. I helped her get her backpack off and set it behind her before unzipping my own and rummaging through it until I found a small first aid kit. "Perfect. Here, let's take a look." I told her, pointing at her stomach which was covered in red.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 14:31:38 GMT -5
Zayna “Uhm.. Sure. We can stop here,” Levi said hesitantly. I knew he was considering the fact that we were completely exposed and still being pelted by rain. I slowly sat down and let Levi help me take my backpack off before I leaned back against a tree trunk. Levi searched through his own pack before bringing out a small first aid kit. “Perfect. Here, let’s take a look,” he pointed to my blood soaked clothes. I zipped the zipper on my jacket down and slowly pulled my shirt up, wincing in pain as I revealed the deep laceration right above my left hip bone. I groaned in disgust at the bright red liquid oozing out and clumping up around my skin.
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 14:39:01 GMT -5
Levi Zayna unzipped her jacket and carefully lifted her shirt up, wincing slightly as the fabric pulled itself away from her body unwillingly. The gash was right above her left hip bone; part of it was still seeping out blood but some was starting to clot up. I looked at it tensely and then searched the first aid kit. I found some sterilizing wipes and tore them out of their small packages. I held the few that I unwrapped and handed them to Zayna. "Take these and try to clean what you can so that doesn't get infected. It's pretty deep but I think a good, tight binding should do the trick." I told her, hoping I could help patch her up in a way that'd hold.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 14:52:25 GMT -5
Zayna I clenched my teeth together and let out a hiss of breath as I gently wiped at my wound. The liquid dripped into my open flesh and the alcohol in it burned causing flashed of pain to light up in my brain, but I tried to ignore them as I cleaned up the blood around and on my wound. When most of the blood was gone, I realized it was a pretty clean cut. It was deep and bloody but it was a perfectly straight line and hadn’t seemed to hit anything too important. “Okay,” I said to Levi tiredly, looking away from my stomach. “That’s about as clean as it’s going to get.”
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 15:05:01 GMT -5
Levi Zayna clenched her teeth and let out a hiss of air as she wiped at the cut. I watched her facial expressions clench as I looked through the kit for a decent bandage. I found one just as Zayna was done cleaning it up. "Okay," She said to me sounding tired. "That's about as clean as it's going to get." "Good," I said with a small smile to try to convey some support. "How's the actual cut? Does it go very deep?" I asked her as I got closer and gingerly put my fingers on her skin near it, examining a bit as I started to place the bandage over it.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 15:10:45 GMT -5
Zayna “It’s deep enough,” I sighed. “It’s not actually that bad though. I think maybe it just hit a blood artery or something and that’s why it’s still bleeding. Not to mention the fact that I keep pulling it when I jump down from something.”
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 15:23:27 GMT -5
Levi "I think if it'd hit an artery you wouldn't have made it this far." I told her, raising an eyebrow. "But you're right, jacking it up without a bandage wasn't helping. We should've stopped sooner." I finished placing the bandage over the cut and then grabbed Zayna's hand, holding it over the cut to keep everything in place. "Here, hold this for a second." I said, letting go of her. "This needs constant pressure on it, but you're gonna need both of your hands, so we should wrap this around it a few times to keep it compressed." I showed her a roll of elastic tape and pulled a length of it out before starting to wrap it around her waist. Both my hands went around her exposed midriff, passing the roll around a few times while I tried not to seem too awkward but I could feel myself blushing slightly. I set my jaw, trying not to get embarrassed.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 16:14:09 GMT -5
Levi's warm hands brushed against my skin slightly. His touch made me tingle slightly and I bit my lip as I watched his face contort into an embarrassed look hidden by his set jaw. I drew in a breath as the tape pushed against my wound and instinctively grabbed Levi's shoulder, squeezing it tightly. "Sorry," I muttered, quickly removing my hand as he tore off the end of the tape and patted it down lightly against my body. "You know this is gonna be killer to pull off later right?" I asked him, already dreading when we'd have to redress the wound.
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 16:39:09 GMT -5
Levi "Well, the good thing is that it'll hold for quite awhile." I said, backing away slightly and taking a breath now that I was out of Zayna's personal space. I noticed the rain lighten up and I squinted as I looked up through the leaves, watching the drops drip from every limb. "Oh yeah, you should drink some water, and probably see if there's any food in your backpack. I saw some pain medication in this first aid kit too, you should have them." I told her, scrambling through the kit to find the little package of them. I offered them to her with a soft smile.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 20:33:33 GMT -5
Zayna He scrambled through the kit and pulled out a couple of pills, offering them to me with a soft smile. I took them gratefully, hoping my face showed the gratitude I felt towards Levi and the help he had given me. I grabbed my own pack and unzipped it, searching through it before finding an almost full bottle of water and a couple of bags of dried fruit. I tossed the pills back with a swig of water and then tossed a bag of the fruit at Levi. “Here,” I said. “You need the nutrition as much as I do.”
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 20:43:55 GMT -5
Levi "And I'll gladly take it." I told her, taking the fruit with a small nod. I set back on my butt and moved my backpack onto my lap. "While we're doing this we should see what else is in these bags. Maybe there's a map or something with information that could help us." I said as I opened the fruit packet and popped some into my mouth.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 20:51:39 GMT -5
I nodded in agreement, ripping open my own food and shoving some in my mouth. As I chewed, I grabbed my pack and dumped it out. I looked through the items which consisted of another bottle of water, a flashlight, leather gloves, an extra jacket and pair of socks, ammunition, and a small pocket knife. "Hey some of this will come in super handy," I noted. "But nothing of importance to us."
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Post by KenseyG on Jul 9, 2015 20:57:44 GMT -5
Levi I dumped the rest of my pack out in front of me and found much of the same stuff but instead of an extra bottle of water I had a rope. I shook the pack a few times, feeling a weight still in it before I noticed there was another zipper on the inside. I creased my brow and reached in, opening the extra pocket. I felt something rectangular and when I pulled it out a smile lit up on my face. "I didn't find a map, but I think this might be better than that." I told her, taking it out of the bag.
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Post by Breanne..(: on Jul 9, 2015 21:22:15 GMT -5
Zayna "What is it?" I asked, my brows furrowed as he began taking something out of his pack.
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