The Dawn of the Raven episode 17 Read Free Page B

neck.  Wrathe screamed.  He turned, burning with anger, and threw her against the cavern wall.  The arrow had broken off, the tip still lodged in his throat, with dark black blood oozing out.  The shaft of the arrow was sharp where it had broken, and Kiella rushed back at him to stab him with it again as he reached to try to dislodge the tip from his neck.  She stabbed him in the side with it, and again he screamed out.  He slammed her down again and this time Kiella hit her head against the stone floor.  It was not enough to knock her out, but she was dazed, and she couldn’t get up quickly.
                  Wrathe looked at the little human who had wounded him so, and saw that she wouldn’t be rising soon.  He laughed at how much fight she’d had in her.  She’d wounded him fairly severely.  He felt the blood that gushed out from both wounds, and he could feel that his strength was fading.  He wondered if he would even see the battle.  He turned back towards the body on the floor.  He stabbed his blade into the center of the being.  There was a scream.  The body was writhing so much that he knew he hadn’t wounded it severely, the blade had barely gone in before it had moved and it was not a deep wound.  He looked for a better spot to stab it, but as he reached to steady it, the being burst from its bindings and grabbed his wrist to stop his blow.  He’d loosened the bindings enough that the Gekken inside Shyrea’s body, knowing that he was about to be murdered by his fellow soldier, had been able to break free of them while Wrathe was busy with Kiella.  He took Wrathe by surprise and struck him in the temple hard enough to knock him down.  The Gekken inside Shyrea’s body removed the cloak so he could see, and Wrathe was shocked to see such a beautiful young creature coming at him with such ferocity.  The Gekken soldier picked up a rock from the cavern floor and bashed Wrathe’s skull with it.  Shyrea’s body didn’t give the Gekken the normal strength he was accustomed to, so it took many more strikes with the rock to finish him than he would have expected, but he continued to rain them down on him until his face and skull were pummeled beyond recognition.  As soon as Wrathe stopped moving completely, aside from the odd twitch of a finger or toe, the Gekken in Shyrea turned towards the opening of the cavern and tried to rush out.  He had not realized that his feet were still loosely bound, however, and he tripped instantly and knocked his head on the cavern floor.  Shyrea’s body was knocked out.  It wouldn’t matter who or what inhabited her being now for quite a while, as they would be unable to move or do anything as long as her body was unconscious.
                  Kiella was in disbelief.  She’d gathered her senses again just in time to see Shyrea finish crushing the Gekken’s skull into pulp.  When she saw her turn and fall and hit the cavern floor so hard, she rushed to her side.  She turned Shyrea over and saw blood streaming down from her scalp.  It was thick in her gorgeous hair and pooling on the cavern floor.  Kiella checked to make sure she was still breathing, and then did her best to care for her friend’s wound.  She applied pressure to it, and soon it began to clot.  It was not as bad a wound as the blood had at first made it appear.  The blood stopped flowing within minutes.  It was now clotted and clumped all through her gorgeous friend’s hair.  She found the other wound, where Wrathe had stabbed at her, but it was a very slight wound.  A long cut across her side, but one that was so shallow that it had little chance of harming her other than if it were to become infected.  Kiella did her best to clean it, and then kissed her on the forehead and the top of her head and held her tightly in her arms.  She sat on the cold cavern floor cradling her, rocking her, telling her of her love for her, words that she hadn’t yet dared