Uniqua grabs it and comes over to him. "I'm guessing I put it on the cut?" she says, placing it on the wound.
Rashall jolts as the patch hits the cut as it always did, though it didn't hurt. He then tries and fails three times to get up, this wasn't going as he thought it would. "Well then looks like I'm hobbled, Uniqua New Hallafax is up the road about two miles. Go there and get some help, though you'll most likely run into a patrol before that. A cold spell is coming, great this is getting better and better," says Rashall sniffing the air.
Uniqua takes on a scared look."Rashall, a Shade? They say it's harmless, but the toxins slowly cause internal damage. I'd think you would know that."
"The patch you put on me slows it down, there's still a 50/50 chance it won't work and some of the toxins may be in my blood. In other words there is still a chance I might die without proper medical treatment, but there's a freeze wind coming if you don't hurry and get help to get me to my house I'll die from the cold," says Rashall trying to stand up again.
Uniqua smiles. "No, you won't. But I might." Uniqua says, getting up. "I remember a song from when I was young. It would make an almost 'eye of the storm' like thing around a certain pony. It can do more than one, but that would take too much energy. Help would take too long to get." Uniqua walks just a few feet away from Rashall. "Wish me luck." she whispers. She slowly begins to sing, the words nearly as silent as whisper. After a few minutes Uniqua collapses.
Rashall edges himself as quickly as possible to Uniqua's side and starts to drag her to the ditch at the side of the road. He then manages to get his small cloud out and spread it over the top of them making it uniform with the road, but with a small red star hovering brightly above it in case any patrol came their way. Rashall managed to get two branches of pine tree to either side their pineneedles were so thickly packed they made a wall of green on either side. He made sure Uniqua was laying down furthest in on the left side and made sure he covered her body up with as much of his mid sized blanket as possible with enough room for him. As he got under the blanket the storm started to blow overheard a sheer white screen, he burrowed further under the blanket barely touching Uniqua. Settled finally he closed his eyes and went to sleep hoping that they made it through.
Uniqua opens her eyes to find that she is looking at dirt. She shoots up, yelling. "Rashall! Why? I put a weather shield around you, so you would be safe!" She grumbled. "But know here we are, winging it in a ditch."
"I'm sorry if my code isn't exactly what you wanted, but there is no way I'm letting a great friend die," says Rashall in an almost whispered tone.
Uniqua stops whatever she was going to say. "Great friend? N-no one has ever called me a great friend before." she says in a gentler tone.
"Until now that is," says Rashall with a weak smile, "Even with everything piled on me I still feel this cold, I forgot how harsh this wind could get," he adds shivering a little. Briefly Rashall thinks he hears the foot falls of Nexus, but they stop suddenly probably just the wound.
Uniqua looks around. "Oh, you could use my scarf." she says, taking it off and wrapping it around Rashall. "I wish I had more, but I don't."
Rashall hears the pounding again and this time it comes from both road level and straight to his right. "Looks like it won't be needed," says Rashall before passing out. "What do we have here?" Asks A wolf in full armor peering through the open end of the small leantoo.
"Come on then looks like Rash needs to get home. Who are you and what happened?" Asks the wolf signaling to another of his comrades outside.
The wolf walks in further crouching down, he peels the patch back revealing an ugly looking wound. "Right he needs to get home ASAP, my names Nexus by the way," says the wolf, he turns as he hears a chariot pull up outside it backs right up to the entrance and drops the rear ramp. "Lets go," says Nexus lifting Rashall and his stuff in one go and carrying him into the chariot.
