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So let's move on to Chapter 20- Blood and Fire(This chapter's slightly dark, FYI)

LARKTAIL

My chest is on fire.

Through the peace of sleep, I still feel the throb of a wound. The flow of warm blood leaving my abdomen. My life going with it.

And then something new.

Something else is flowing in with the ouster of my blood. It almost feels like a replenishment of the life leaving my body.

A whisper sounds in my ear.

Live, it says.

I feel the wound healing. Slowly, the pain dissipates. I open my eyes to find the blood fading from the sheets. A glance around reveals an empty room-empty excepting a ginger she-cat on a windowsill, licking its paw. She looks at me, and even though she's a cat I feel a strong connection to her. The cat hops out of the space and is gone.

Was SHE the one to heal me?

A nurse walks in, pushing an IV cart. But when she sees my bloodless sheets and my awake body, her eyes roll back in her head and she passes out.

Um.

Yeah. Because I was dying five minutes ago. I'm surprised myself. The doctor walks in and he looks just as surprised.

"Well. You...you..." He whips his head towards the door.

"SPECIAL!"

A young woman with lavender hair and brown eyes rushes into the room. She registers me and nods. It's like she's... seen this before?

"Dr. Alder, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Her voice is like a slow river, smooth and lazy with a bit of a burble.

The flabbergasted man nods, shocked, and pulls out the nurse by her armpits, shutting the door behind him.

"Miss Larktail. I am Dr. W, and... Was there... perhaps... a ginger cat on that windowsill when you opened your eyes? Did you happen to hear a whisper?"

I'm speechless. How did she...

"..."

"I take it there was. I'm going to ask you to perform a motion for me. If you can complete it without coughing or any... strange reactions... what happened to you was in fact real. If not, you have an hour to live. Max." Her face is dead serious as she motions her arms in a series of complicated gestures. I find myself subconsciously following along.

When she stops, I stop.

"I see. Well, you're fine. We'll discharge you tomorrow. You'll regain your speech in... oh, about a week. You will only be able to meow, purr, et cetera until that time is up as a side affect. Good day." She leaves, and I open my mouth to ask her to stay.

"Meow?"

UH.

JAYFEATHER

After a series of long, painstaking days in the med wing where I am tutored, it's finally the end of the day. I meet Briarlight at the end of the medicine hall and we chat.

"So what did you work on today?"

"Medicinal herbs."

"What kinds?"

"Yarrow, marigold, goldenrod... stuff like that."
"Cool! Today I worked on leg exercises. I want there to be SOME muscle when I get my legs removed for my cyborg legs..."

Hold up.

"Cyborg legs?" I ask, confused.

"Yeah. Didn't expect me to have these useless appendages forever, did you?"

"... No."

"Well, I'd like to be able to walk again. Wouldn't you like to see again?"

Yes. I would love to see her blue eyes and tan skin and...

Wait, what?

But I can't see.

Slowly, I turn my head to where her eyes might be.

And then there is a flash, and I see an event that must be...

"Briarlight! The tree is going to fall!" my mother screams. Her melodious voice is high-pitched and terrified as it echoes from our living room, where she must have seen the Tree sway in the strong, stronger than they've ever been winds. I scramble towards my bedroom door.

The crash of thunder booms in my ears. Flashes of lightning follow and blind me as I try to escape.

A groan rings out. The tree!

It crashes through my window. Everything seems to happen in slow motion. The tree breaking the glass. Branches crashing through my dresser, tearing at my midnight walls.

And then the crack and the sound of multiple bones breaking.

I can no longer feel my legs.

I can no longer see for passing out from pain.

BRIARLIGHT

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME! All I did was gaze into his beautiful eyes. And now I see this.

jayfeather's memory

I'm playing with my siblings.

It's sunset, and the world is a dusk purple as we run about the front yard playing tag.

Mother calls us in for dinner. But we ignore her.

Lionblaze races towards the road. "Nyahh, Nyah, can't catch me!"

I follow. I don't see the black car, ginger-haired driver at the front.

I don't watch it swerve wildly, trying not to hit me.

I don't realize it's the last thing I'll ever see.

I don't see it hit the tree and parts shooting into the air.

The flying wheel cap hits me, sharp corners and all, in the right eye.

I collapse to the ground.

Waking up several days later in the hospital I am told what has happened.

My right eye? Darkness.

My left? A blur.

I am told the eye that was hit got infected.

I am told it has spread.

I am told I will never see again.

My heart splits, and I curl into myself, crying for memories, people, that I will never see.

"Oh, Jay..." I feel my eyes brimming with tears.

"B-Briarlight? is that really what happened to you?" His eyes are brimming with tears as well.

"I'm s-so sorry..." he moans dejectedly. I watch him collapse into a sitting position next to my wheel chair.

I reach out, and brush his fingers. I want to hold his hand.

He grabs it like he'll never let it go.

BOTH POV at same time

I realize in that moment we love each other.

I will never let you go.

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