She awoke to a stabbing pain in her chest. Her eyes shot open. The nurse among them was busy cutting into her. One of the arrowheads had already been removed and the wound sutured, but the other was being surgically extracted. Her whole body tensed up. She groaned and clenched her teeth as Camellia finished cutting and carefully pulled the arrow out. Blood oozed from the wound. She wiped it away with a cloth and began stitching the flesh together.
Kenna lay near the fire with her head on a pillow. Yuuki sat at her side, holding her hand tightly. She looked around the room and saw only worried and saddened faces. “Hey,” she said to Yuuki. “I told you I’d come back.”
Camellia scoffed. “Without Aster.”
Ken closed her eyes for a moment and tried to breathe normally. “She insisted on helping
