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"Mmmm..." Gwen let out a groggy noise while her blurred vision slowly returned to her. She wasn't sure what had happened or where she was now. Her brain felt like it had been smashed into a fine paste and her body felt somehow even worse. A single, wet cough came from her while she blinked several times to clear her head. The sanitized, bright lights of the room became known to her as the muted sounds around her grew louder.

A hospital? Wasn't she supposed to be underground or in some rock cave or something? She didn't really understand what was happening or if she was still alive. But people and doctors were moving around outside. Although faint, she could hear them talking to patients or chatting amongst themselves. Did that mean she was alive? Gwen didn't know, but she couldn't stay here. Not when robin coello was out there somewhere.

Her left hand slowly gripped the railing of the bed and pulled hard enough to make her slowly move. Her legs ached, but she found it within herself to force them to crawl over the bed. The exertion had taken its toll on her as the steady rhythm of the heart rate monitor was picking up. Yet Gwen continued to push herself into a semi-seated position. Cords and more wires across her body had been weighing her down, and the taste of metal stung in her mouth. She eyed the next thing to grab hold of, the IV drip stand and reached out with her right arm...

The resulting sound was a loud, booming noise as machines, monitors and more had fallen over, alongside Gwen tumbled out of bed, entangled in the wires.

She winced, looking at the outstretched arm in front of her, or lack thereof. From the top of the elbow down was just a bandaged, smooth stump. No fingers or even a hand to speak of. Just a dull throbbing sensation where it should have been. The ranger stared at the loss of her limb as the sounds around her quieted down once again. Abject fear burrowed into her heart, as she let out a terrified screech, grasping the stump as foosteps neared her room...

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visiting rangers in the hospital is sobering work, but it's her duty as a ranger captain to show support to those who give so much of themselves away to protect and serve the region. there are a few in dewford's hospital. she knows their names, even if she doesn't know their faces. and she knows the familiar cost of their goodness.[break][break]she's on her way to gwen's room when she hears a crash, then a screech. her heart leaps into her throat and she's in the room, kneeling on the floor, before her mind can catch up to movement. [break][break]"you're okay!" [break][break]there's a lump in her throat, gazing down at a girl younger than her, holding the bandaged remains of her arm. she's just a teenager. she should be a teenager, not a soldier. and yet — [break][break]"it's okay, gwendolyn, everything's going to be okay," she murmurs. "here, let's get you back onto the bed."[break][break]but she waits for some semblance of consent from the ranger first, afraid that she might lash out and hurt herself worse if she tries to pick her up without it.

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In her hysteria, Gwen tried to catch her breath just as Annalise hurried into the room and was there to watch Gwen screaming at the top of her lungs about her bandaged arm. "I-It's not there! I can't lose it! My arm..." Fingers felt around the fleshy nub that only exacerbated the torment that she was experiencing right now. When the other woman walked in and tried to comfort her, Gwen had managed to quell her shouts and cries long enough to be helped back up onto her feet.

Gwen hugged Annalise tightly. Even with a single arm, her distress was visible. She continued to sob, resting her chin on the other woman's shoulder. "Y-You think that everything's going to be oka-ay? Sootopolis is underwater, we don't know how many *hic* people died, a-and now I can't do anything! My dominant arm is gone! I can't write, can't work on tech, can't use a phone, and Ah-Augh-I can't be a Ranger anymore!"

Now fully on the bed, Gwen was still inconsolable. She curled into a ball, sitting up on the bed while the heart monitors let out frantic, fast paced beeps. "I don't know what to do...I don't have money for any of this. How am I supposed to work with one arm?! You're going to just discharge me and hope I'll just slink off somewhere and..."

She was far too upset to continue her frantic shouting match at Annalise, pounding the bed with her remaining arm.

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years of ranger work give her the strength to pick gwen off the ground and bring her back to bed. she rifles through her mind for some silver bullet answer to give her, but what can she say? her arm is gone. there is no promise, no gentle word, that can bring back what is lost. all she can do is hold her just as tightly, an ephemeral comfort as she's transferred from the floor to the hospital bed, and listen to her despair. [break][break]annalise has been here before, but in gwen's place instead. she knows anything she says is going to sound like bullshit because it had sounded like bullshit to her, once. everyone says life gets easier, but that just feels like a kick in the teeth during the worst day of someone's life. [break][break]"one thing at a time," she says eventually, once gwen has had the opportunity to beat her hurt into the mattress. "all you need to worry about right now is getting better."[break][break]but how can she? she thinks the world is falling apart. [break][break]"sootopolis isn't underwater anymore," she promises. "and we have people there taking care of everything."[break][break]annalise takes a breath, words catching in her throat. [break][break]"you're going to need rehab." a certainty. "but the human body is adaptable. writing, using your phone, being a ranger — you're going to be able to do all these things with your other hand."[break][break]she reaches out, however tentatively, to try and rest her hand over gwen's own. [break][break]"and you will still be a ranger after this; we're not going to abandon you just because you got hurt. whatever you need, me and ollie morales and the rest of the rangers will take care of it, okay?"

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Gwendolyn punched once again. And again. It continued for a full minute or so until she tired herself and stopped to slowly lower herself back on the bed. An arm wrapped around the pillow while just listening to Annalise try and comfort her, slowly shifting herself to face the Ranger Head while she had to control her quiet sulks to not be audible. The humiliation struck through her very core, wanting to crawl underneath the covers and just hide away from the entire world.

It all sounded like niceties used to placate her emotion. Temporary answers to get her to calm down while her flustered self continued to suffer underneath the pressure of everything. She didn't say anything and just continued to fester in her own thoughts, the long hand grabbed the pillow with an audible squeeze. She closed her eyes tight, clenching her jaw shut for a moment or so before she could speak again.

"I don't know if I can do it." Gwen admitted, bordering on tears again. "Agh-I don't...I can't go back, n-not again. Please don't let me die..." Emotion caught in her throat. A glob of regret and sadness that lodged itself firmly into her windpipe. She heaved her chest again, summoning every ounce of courage to will herself to speak again, despite the fear of the unknown.

Her own hand fell into the other woman's, giving it a gentle squeeze. "I'm sorry, this head injury makes it hard to focus on thinking sometimes. It just changes at times a-and I..." She paused for a moment, then looked up at the other woman honestly. The one thing in her mind from that cave was still so present, the revelation that Gwen had been keeping from herself for so long. All quickly brought to the forefront as she took a moment, then spat out whatever came to her mind first.

"I just want to have a purpose, I don't know what I want to do in life, and this is just making it harder."

But there was a reminder that she couldn't stay cooped up in here, longing in her own failure forever. A name came to her mind at one moment that reminded of of something important.

freya morningstar.

"Fuck, fuckfuckfuckfuck! She's depending on me. She's depending on me and I let her down." Gwen punched the bed again, then turning back to Annalise again in the middle of her frenzied, troubled train of thought. "Is Freya okay? She's not hurt, is she? I have to get her coffe ready, a-and make sure she's eating, and make sure she's alright." Gwen tried to get out of bed again and rush out, though was held back by tubes and things wired into her.

"How soon until I can leave, ma'am? The hospital staff won't know how to care for her. I've got to make sure she's alright."

Was this what war brought? Wounds that weren't physical but straining the relationships and worry of others/ Gwen still tried to get up despite everything, with her legs wobble as she neared the edge of the bed once more.

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"you don't have to fight in a war to make a difference."[break][break]something everyone must learn eventually. she remembers, fresh out of the hospital, that there was a conflict breaking out off the coast of dewford. all she had wanted to do was fly there, to be a detriment to the league to pursue her own selfish ends. she hadn't, in the end, but she knew the directionless ache all the same. [break][break]"and you're still so young, you'll fi—"[break][break]gwen's hand slips out of her own, then slams against the mattress in an outburst of panic. annalise's shoulders jolt, startled by the suddenness of it, confused by the unknown she that the younger ranger so desperately needs to return to. [break][break]freya? she blinks, brows furrowing. morningstar?[break][break]"i can ask the doctors, but you should wait until they clear you before trying to get up out of bed."[break][break]she sees it, the way gwen's wriggling is encumbered by the wires attached to her. it's good — better than having her tumble onto the floor a second time. nevertheless, annalise rises, circles the bed, and sits on the edge that she's trying to find freedom from. [break][break]"freya is okay," she says, another promise that isn't a certainty. the only thing she knows for sure is freya morningstar wouldn't be happy if gwen hurt herself in the grand pursuit of getting her her coffee order. "and she wants you to be okay before you get back to her. other people will make sure she's eating; you just need to take care of yourself right now."[break][break]but she won't harp on her with some half-bullshit adage like "you can't help others until you help yourself."[break][break]"i can message her, though, if you want me to. let her know that you're here and stuff — but she probably knows about all that by now."

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These damned wires, keeping her in place while Freya was likely somewhere either starving, dehydrated or a combination of both! She struggled for a bit but managed to calm herself down and give the other woman a tired yet reluctant look. "She needs me, Captain! If I'm in here, she's probably in her office or just passed out somewhere. J-Just please let me help…"

She fussed around but would eventually settle down enough to lay back down. Her body ached with a dull throb and Gwen let out a soft exhale in revolt. Being stuck in a bed was a fate worse than death for her. A busybody who had to keep moving was no good being bedridden. She looked down at Gishath around her body as the Garchomp was busy chewing on some of her leftovers.

"Head hurts." A brief statement as Gwen rubbed the back of her neck, looking over at Annalise again. "How long has it been since Sootopolis? A-And what about Petalburg? Did we lose that too?"

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