P a n g a e a
'Cause in your warmth I forget how cold it can be
And in your heat I feel how cold it can get
There was a rush of dismay at the idea of actually letting another defend her. A creature who had spent all her life in defense it was unsettling, unusual. She protected the others. She did her best to defend her brother until his last moments. Her pack and Rex. The idea of having to rely on another to protect her was so foreign . . . But she also knew she wasn't exactly able to defend herself, especially in a cave that wouldn't allow her the ability to reach altitude. So instead she simply nods, keeping one eye on the entrance to their temporary shelter and allows him to spread the odd paste. She flinched at first before settling as he left it alone to do its job.
Then came the real test of her ability to withstand. His linens hot from water pressed into her flesh, cleaning the entrance of the would. She squeaked and chirped at his workings. The sounds a mixture of avian and something older. She squeezes her eyes shut, but the pain isn't as bad as she was expecting. But she also knew there was more to come. His application of the paste had her tensing, knowing this would be the hard part to follow. When he actually had to clean out the wound. This time she did scream, those odd vocal cords of her mixing a Whinney with a trilling sound, much higher in pitch that she would normally do. But she held strong, refusing to even so much as twitch the limb he was working on. This time tears didn't just well at her eyes, they fell freely as she buried her face into her wings, cradling her head as if that would make the pain worse.
Only once did the trilling sounds she screamed changed, when he would work on the worst inside the wound short bark-like clicks in triplicate leaving her muzzle , a voiceless plea of help to stop the pain. But still she didn't move, refused to stop him working, even as her cries softened back into plaintiff chirps once more as he would begin to finish the last bit of tidying up with the wound.
"Speech"
Thoughts
@Gareth
Notes:. Included her responses and screams as he would have kept cleaning and treating so you can have an idea of her reactions to finish up this part of her healing. ^_^
Cause in your warmth I forget how cold it can be
And in your heat I feel how cold it can get
Now draw me close
