Title: These Wounds
Prompt: 080 - Healing
Word Count: 108
Rating: PG

"You're bleeding," he said quietly, nodding toward the swollen gash across her chest. She grimaced, leaning against the sturdy tree trunk.

"I know," she whispered.

"Does it hurt?"

She nodded. "Do you have your wand?"

He scowled, procuring what looked like a broken twig. "No."

She bit her lip and tore the hem of her shirt, ripping off what became a small bundle of cloth. Then she staggered toward the stream, bending when she reached it to wet the fabric.

She touched it to the wound only a moment before she cried out in pain.

He took it from her hands. "Let me do it."

She didn't protest.