The bottom of the ravine was a world away from the sunny courtyard they had left that morning.Down here, the air was damp and cold, smelling of wet earth and crushed ferns. The sky was just a grey stripe high above the towering rock walls."Alpha," Eltonia gasped as she struggled to sit up. Her head was spinning, and her tunic was torn at the shoulder, but she was alive.Beside her, Oreon lay still. He was pale, his eyes were squeezed shut, and his breath was coming in short, sharp hisses. His left leg was bent at a sickening angle under the knee."Oreon?" she whispered, terrified. She reached out her hand over his chest.His eyes snapped open. They were dark with pain, but lucid."I'm... alive," he grunted. He tried to shift, to push himself up, but a roar of agony tore from his throat. He collapsed back into the dirt and pounded his first in the ground. "Dammit!""Don't move," Eltonia ordered. Her fear was overtaken by the instinct to care for him. She was his attendant. This was
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