Prompt: I Feel Fine

Elissa feels fine. Really.

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"...Maker, there's so much blood."

"What should we do? Carry her back to camp? Or..."

"No, we don't want to make it any worse. Someone needs to get Wynne immediately."

Elissa opened her eyes in a daze and looked up into the horrified faces of her companions. She furrowed her brow, puzzled. Something was off; the world felt... Fuzzy. She was sitting, and for some reason she couldn't remember how she ended up that way. She thought maybe they had been in a battle, but something on her abdomen felt wet. Maybe they'd all gone for a swim? Or maybe... it was an underwater battle? Did darkspawn swim?

Elissa frowned. "Why are you all staring at me like that?"

It was Alistair who spoke first, while Zevran and Leliana continued to gawk. "Um, Elissa? Don't... Move, alright?"

"Wha-" Elissa looked down and saw the source of the wet feeling: a deep gash stretching from her naval all the way down her right thigh. "-Oh."

Her friends just continued to stare, which Elissa found odd-she certainly didn't feel any pain, so surely it couldn't have been that bad of a wound.

"It's just a scratch," she said. "I feel fine."

And then, everything went black.