When dinner was over Sportacus, Kit and Robyn fell to conversation. Sportacus was intrigued by Kit and still wanted to know more about him. From what he knew already of the young man he could tell Kit had had a similarly rough ride in life as Robyn but with many more hardships and little respite.
"Did you always travel alone?" Sportacus asked Kit.
"Not always. I have a three legged friend as a companion who tends to travel with me when he feels like it."
"Three legged?" Robyn asked confused.
"Yes three legs. He's a dog named Skip. Before I found him he had four legs, a bicycle ran over one of his legs and damaged it so badly he had to have it removed. I found him in a dog pound and adopted him. He runs just as well with three legs as he did with four." Kit explained.
"Where is he now?" Sportacus asked he was rather interested about meeting this dog.
"He's round here somewhere. He has my bag with all my things in; he won't let me carry it. He has a thing about dragging the bag along and won't even let me get to it sometimes. You needn't worry about him getting hungry or anything, he has loads of food in my bag which he's rather adept at getting to. He also won't make a mess of the town, he does his business under bushes where people can't tread in it or see it."
"That sounds really cool. I have a falcon around here somewhere." Robyn looked up to Erin's usual perch and was a little worried to see she wasn't there. "Where's Erin?" she asked Sportacus.
"She must have gotten out again. She'll come back when she wants some food." Sportacus replied.
Robyn was about to agree but a thought came into her head, "or she'll find some of her own." She said hurriedly and ran to climb down the ladder.
Robyn could hear barking coming from her right, she could also hear Erin squawking and ran to the direction of the noise. When she got closer to the sound she could see Erin trying to attack Skip who was only a small terrier and was trying to defend himself. Robyn knew she didn't have time to get her falconers glove from the airship before Erin did some real damage to Skip or vice versa. She raised her arm and hit it just as she would her glove and called to Erin. Hearing her keeper's voice Erin broke off her attack on Skip and flew to her. Robyn winced when Erin landed on her arm and dug her talons in to balance.
Kit and Sportacus soon joined her and Kit ran over to skip to check on him. Luckily Skip was unharmed and he turned to Robyn to tell her but gasped when he saw blood coming from her arm. Sportacus noticed the blood too and told Robyn to let Erin take off. Robyn threw her arm up and Erin took to the skies, when Erin had gone Robyn drew her arm close to her and cradled it. Sportacus gently pulled Robyn's sleeve up and gasped when he saw the extent of the damage Erin's talons had caused.
"Come on. We need to get these wounds looked at. We're going to have to go to the hospital for these." Sportacus stated and began to lead Robyn to the airship.
Robyn pulled back a little, "they'll be ok. There's no need to go to the hospital." Robyn protested. She hated hospitals.
"No they won't be ok." Argued Kit walking up to Robyn. "If you don't get in that airship I'll carry you to the hospital myself and I'll sit on you to make you stay there."
Robyn knew she'd been beaten. It was two against one and she reluctantly climbed the ladder. Before joining her Sportacus smiled at Kit and placed a hand on his shoulder to say thanks.
Kit, Sportacus and Robyn sat in the Greentown Hospital waiting room. Robyn was extremely anxious but the pain in her arm blocked out most of that anxiety. Sportacus kept going from sitting to standing; he still found it hard to sit still for any length of time but was improving in that sense. They'd not been waiting long when a nurse came into the room and told them a Doctor was ready to see them and led them to a treatment room.
"Come in please." A voice said from inside and Robyn gingerly entered closely followed by Sportacus and Kit. "Please sit down." The Doctor instructed motioning to some chairs in front of him. Once the others sat the Doctor introduced himself.
"I'm Doctor Palley. Now, what do we have here?" Doctor Palley said putting on his glasses and a pair of gloves. He carefully removed a handkerchief which had been wrapped round Robyn's arm to help stem the bleeding. "Who does this belong to?" Doctor Palley asked holding up the blood stained item.
"Me. You can throw it away if you want to, I have plenty more." Kit replied.
Doctor Palley nodded and tossed the handkerchief into a nearby bin. After he'd done this he turned back to Robyn, "What happened then? These look like teeth marks or maybe claw marks of some kind." Doctor Palley asked inspecting Robyn's arm.
"They're claw marks from a falcon. I didn't have my glove on when I called her to return to me." Robyn explained.
Doctor Palley looked up at Robyn with a slightly outraged look on his face, "what the devil did you do that for!" He blustered.
"I didn't have time to get my glove. The falcon was attacking a dog and I had to act quickly or she might have killed the dog or vice versa." Robyn answered rather taken aback by the Doctor's reaction.
Doctor Palley shook his head with slight exasperation and inspected Robyn's arm again, "these are rather deep. I'll have to pressure bandage your whole forearm to stop any more bleeding; gauze would leak eventually and would have to be changed too regularly to bother with it. I'll have to give you a tetanus shot and painkillers. You'll have to keep your arm relatively still and if you tend to roll over on your arms when you sleep don't. Once I've given you the tetanus shot I'll prescribe you some painkillers which you can collect at the hospital pharmacy."
Half an hour later all three of them were back on the airship and on their way back to Lazytown. Robyn's arm still hurt from her injection which she hadn't enjoyed at all. The bandage was extremely tight and made her wounds hurt even more, she'd taken a few painkillers but they'd done nothing so far.
Kit sat next to Robyn on her bed and wasn't surprised when Robyn rested her head on his shoulder, she'd lost some considerable amount of blood and had to be tired. Kit tilted his head to rest on Robyn's and he put an arm round her waist. Robyn didn't react to this as she was already fast asleep and Kit yawned feeling tired himself.
When Sportacus turned around from the piloting section to tell Robyn and Kit they were back home he smiled when he saw them sitting cuddled together sleeping peacefully. He got out of his pilot chair and moved both of them so they were lying down but still cuddled, they'd be much more comfortable like this. Neither of the youngsters stirred when they were moved and Sportacus gently put Robyn's duvet over them and tucked it round them to keep them warm. Before he went to bed himself he gave Robyn a kiss on the cheek and whispered goodnight.