Chapter Eleven

I woke up to see I was lying face down in the dirt. I lifted up my head and looked around at my surroundings. I sat up and immediately grabbed my head. I had a horrible headache! I quenched my eyes shut against the pain.

After the pain had gone down a little did I look down at the ground again. I gasped and scurried over to Elendir.

I saw the wound on his arm and it was still bleeding. I figured it must have been bleeding all night because the ground all around him was damp and a rosy red.

I stood up and ran over to where Sila was sleeping and reached inside my pack and grabbed the bandages and medication that I had bought earlier from the merchant.

I ran back over to Elendir, picked up his arm and dabbed his wound with a clean cloth with medication on it.

After I had cleaned his wound I gather some firewood and took the flint out of my pack and started to make a fire for I was going to sterilize the wound to help it close, plus I needed to get any poison out if there was any in it. Once I had the fire going I took out my dagger and set put it into the coals to heat it up and sterilize it.

After I could see the dagger starting to turn red, I took it out of the coals and hung it on a tree branch to cool off, for there was a strong breeze this morning.

I walked back over to Elendir and laid down. I instantly fell asleep.

An hour went by and I woke up. I walked over to the tree that I had hung my dagger upon and licked my fingers then touched it. It was cold.

I untied the dagger and brought it over to Elendir.

I set his wounded arm in my lap and pressed the dagger hard against the wound. The wound started gushing out blood, but not the regular kind of blood. It was blood mixed with black poison. I kept releasing and pressing the dagger against his wound until the only blood that came out was rosy red.

I stopped and the wound kept bleeding, so I took the cloth with the medication on it and cleaned his wound once again.

I went back to the fire. The fire was out but the coals were still hot, and that's all that I needed.

I held the dagger close to the coals and waited for it to turn red again. Once it turned that deep orange red did I take it away from the fire. I let it cool but not so much that it was cold; I had to keep it hot.

Once I thought it was cool/hot enough, I walked back over to Elendir, set his wounded arm in my lap and pressed the hot dagger right on top of the wound.

Elendir's skin sizzled and steam rose off of it. I lifted up the knife and checked my work. It wasn't very professional but it would do until we got to Salia.

It would be three days till then, so I bandaged up his arm to last till then.

I fell asleep next to Elendir.

In my sleep I felt Elendir stir then I heard him cry out in agony, a slap followed his cry.

I opened my eyes and turned my head to see what Elendir was yelling about. I saw him holding his arm and gritting his teeth in great pain.

"What's wrong?" I asked Elendir.

Through gritted teeth he replied, "M-my arm i-is really a-acting up" he then squeezed his arm tighter.

I crawled over to him and pried his fingers off his arm then I unwrapped the bandages. I saw that the wound and opened again! I scowled and tried to think of something to do for it. An idea popped into my head. I pushed myself to my feet and walked over to the bushes that I had dropped the small glass ball.

I reached into the bushes and found the small glass ball. I clasped my hand around it, and then I brought it out and walked back over to Elendir.

I kneeled down next to him and took his wounded arm and placed the small glass ball against his wound.

Elendir cried out in agony again as his skin wound sizzled underneath the ball. I took the ball of the wound and watched it heal.

The wound kept sizzling, but was closing fast. I watched in wonderment as the wound closed and after a last little sliver a sizzle escaped it left his wound closed and good as new!

I looked up at Elendir and smiled warmly.

Elendir's eyes were wide with shock; he moved his arm around a bit and then grinned. "It's good as new!" he exclaimed. He stood up and grabbed his sword and started swinging it around almost hitting me.

I put up my hand, "whoa! Watch it there!" I stood up and laughed at his face. It was so filled with happiness it almost made me want to shout for joy. Instead I leaned forward and gave him a warm embrace, and without thinking about what I was doing I tilted my head upwards and kissed him.

After realizing what I was doing I jerked back and stepped away blushing.

Elendir just stood there clearly shocked, then he chuckled, "I think you're a bit too happy Arien!"

I smiled and turned and walked back towards Sila. I clambered onto her and waited for Elendir to straddle Midnight. Once he had I kicked Sila softly in the ribs to get her going. Elendir caught up to me and asked, "How many days till we get there?"

"Um, I think about three days."

"Mmm," Elendir nudged Midnight closer to me and then grasped my hand in his.

I looked down at his and then up into his blue eyes with confusion.

"Arien, I think I finally know how I feel about you." I looked away for a second and then looked back quickly. "Arien, I…" He looked down trying to find words. "I, I love you Arien. I think I always have too." He looked up into my eyes and smiled slightly.

I melted under his gaze and I knew I loved him also, "I love you too Elendir." We closed the gap between us as our lips met one another. We broke apart and headed down the road again in silence, oh but it wasn't silence through and through. Our thoughts were shouting at the top of their lungs, "I love you!"

Sorry for the lack of updates, I had a huge writer's block!