THE CURSED ONE
Rocks jutted out along the bank, smooth and dark, slick with the flow.
Laura lowered Damian gently on a flat stone near the edge. His breathing had brown shallower, his skin pale under the pale twilight glow.
“Let me see it,” she said quietly. When he didn’t protest, she lifted the edge of his torn shirt.
Her stomach tightened. The wound was getting bigger, dark blood seeped through, edged with faint black veins that pulsed faintly, like the echo of whatever cursed blade had cut him.
“Hold still.” She whispered.
She scooped water from the river and let it spill gently across the wound. Damian hissed, muscles tensing, his hand gripping the stone beneath him till his knuckles turned white.
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