mehehhhgg. [ sunny/p ]

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Tallshadow had somehow found himself in the medicine clearing, his body laying in a shallow groove. Blood stained his paws, and belly fur, dried and sticky. His right front leg was at an awkward angle, twisted unnaturally so it would appear that it was deformed awkwardly or that he had a messed up leg at birth.

The tom groaned in pain as pain flared through his body. Scars, scratches, and ear torn to ribbons, he looked pathetic as he crouched pitifully near the medicine den. In place of his left eye, were claw gouges, making him blind in that eye. He was deaf in his right ear, which swiveled awkwardly.

" Swunbwaze? " he called, his voice muffled and somewhat muted. His tongue was swollen, since he could barely speak.

[Sunblaze]

(omg)
Sunblaze had been passing by the medicine cat clearing on her way out to collect a few herbs that they seemed to be running low on, then she heard her name, it was distorted but it was still her name. She looked around the clearing in search of the cat that sounded like it was in pain. Then she spotted him, Tallshadow. "Oh no!" She mewed in panic when she saw the very injured cat. She ran around behind in and grabbed the scruff of his neck and slowly pulled him towards one of the comfy moss beds. Then she ran to her herb storage.

Sunblaze emerged a few minutes later with a bundle of herbs. In the bundle was cobwebs, comfrey, horsetail, juniper berries, marigold, nettle leaves and poppy seeds. She quickly rushed back to Tallshadows side and began licking the blood off so she could see the wounds properly. As quickly as she could she put the nettle leaves infront of the warrior to treat the swelling of his tongue so he could tell her what wounds hurt the most.

"Eat those leaves, they may not taste the best but none of the stuff that helps heal does." She didn't wait for him to start eating before she went back to licking the blood away from the wounds.

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Tallshadow flinched when the she-cat bent down to drag him slowly to a moss nest. He scowled once, making his facial features appear distorted before he relaxed it to his normal composure. With a deep sigh, the tom winced as he felt the pain of his three broken ribs on the side that faced up.

Then Sunblaze began washing his wounds. He flinched again, feeling the sticky blood disappearing slowly. It hurt when she did that, but he couldn't speak at the moment. Tallshadow was too traumatized by the sudden quickness of the raid. Nodding meekly when Sunblaze told him to eat some of the leaves, he quickly grabbed them and stuffed them in his mouth.

His face was disgusted as he chewed slowly, then swallowed painfully. His shredded ear hurt a lot, but they weren't as bad as his ribs. They hurt more than any of his wounds.

" My ribs.. hurt.. the most... " he gasped out, flinching at the pain.

[Sunblaze]

Sunblaze frowned when he mentioned his ribs. "This is going to hurt a bit..." She needed to check how many were broken and if they were even still in place, she didn't want them healing the wrong way. She put her paw lightly on his side and then put a little pressure and moved her paw around. The she-cat frowned again. "You have three broken rips Tallshadow, that means you are going to be staying in my den for a long time, I'm sorry"

Next Sunblaze licked her paw and dabbed it in the poppy seeds, then shook her paw to get the extra seeds off so only three were remaining. "Take these, it will help with the pain and help you sleep so I can work without hurting you to much." She also passed him a poultice of crushed juniper berry and comfrey to help the broken bones heal.

She began examining his ear and put some marigold poultice on it to stop infection then put cobwebs on it to stop the bleeding. "You are going to be blind in one eye, Tallshadow. There isn't anything I can do.." She put marigold and cobwebs over his bad eye also, just because he couldn't use it didn't mean it couldn't get infected.

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Tallshadow gasped out in pain as the medicine cat put slight pressure on his ribs. Fiery pain burned, and as quickly as it came, it stopped when the she-cat pulled her paw off. Tallshadow nodded meekly again, feeling the she-cat work on his basically half-murdered body.

" I'm gwoing to kwill that Drowt. " he slurred, pain shooting through his body again. Licking the poppy seeds up in his mouth, he hissed quietly as his broken leg moved slightly. Pain flared up again, and instantly, he became drowsy as the poppy seeds took effect. Gnawing on the poultice, he swallowed it and flexed his somehow uninjured tail.

Again, pain flared up and the tom meekly nodded again when Sunblaze said he was going to be blind in one eye. Frowning slightly, the tom felt his eyes close as he slumped over, asleep since the poppy seeds took effect on him.

[Sunblaze]

The one thing Sunblaze hated about being a medicine cat was being the bearer of bad news for things like this. She pushed the thought out of her mind and started examining his leg, it was twisted awkwardly, but she didn't think it was broken.

She took the paw in her mouth and put a paw on his shoulder firmly and twisted her head causing the leg to twist back into place.

She got a few poppy seeds for pain and juniper berries for strength ready, mixing the two together she hoped he would stay awake if he ate the mixture when he woke up. He had been clearly exhausted which must have been why the seeds took affect right away. She waited for him to wake up.

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Thank CloudClan Tallshadow was a deep sleeper. If he was awake when Sunblaze cracked his leg back into place, he would've been shrieking his head off. So when he came back into consciousness about twenty minutes later, it was clear that he had no memory of when Sunblaze twisted it back into place.

" Umm.. sorry for falling asleep. " he mewed meekly, flattening his good ear to his head.

[ really lazy sorry. ]

[Sunblaze]

She purred when she saw him awaken. "Good morning sleepy head! And don't worry about falling asleep I'm glad you did." She couldn't handle cats when they yelled out in pain, it made her feel terrible. "Would you like something to drink?" She mewed

(lazy too don't worry.)

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"Yes please.." he meowed, looking miserable and sullen as he stared longingly at the entrance. The tom wished he could walk properly, so he could go find Frostshadow. Scowling, the tom looked around his surroundings with his one good eye, straining to see the dark outlines.

[Sunblaze]

"Okay, I will be right back, don't try to move." She ran to the back were there was a small pool of water and the ceiling was open so it got refilled whenever it rained. She grabbed a piece of moss and dipped it into the pool, soaking it. She quickly went back out to where Adderfur(Namechange??) was sitting and gave him the moss. "Here you go."