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The last thing she remembers is a blurry, blood-smeared battleground. Nothing is distinct, mere shadows and shapes, indecipherable. It comes back to her in painful flashes, debilitating. [break][break]
Explosions, over, and over, and over again.[break][break]
Rotting flesh, unbound intestines, blood and bile, strewn across the ground like spilled paint. [break][break]
And there she lays among it all, among the filth, among the desecration. Beneath the life-giving tree, but she is not alive. [break][break]
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She wakes to the touch of a cold nose beneath her palm. It roots, stubborn and deliberate, until her fingers slip through matted fur. Slowly, Emma's fingers twitch, a weak response to stimulation. But the being whose nose begs for attention responds by pushing harder, a tongue rasping against her skin.[break][break]
It's warm.[break][break]
Blinding hospital lights bleed through the bandages around her head, and it hurts to open her eyes. But that would be like a second skin, soon. Everything hurt.[break][break]
She is roused every half hour, a nurse nervously entering the room. Emma knew she was there only by the vibrating beast curled up at the end of her hospital bed. He keeps her feet warm. He is her protector, her tether.[break][break]
Lips peel back in warning but he allows the nurse to oversee Emma regularly. Whatever it took to keep his master alive.
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