The Ancients

Sheltered

Now if memory has served me right, stepping about 5 meters forward would put us in the right place to find what we were looking for. Cautiously, I began to move forward in the darkness, one step at a time gently just in case we happened to end up of course. Prince had followed me closely behind, huffing in the storm when I put my hand in front of him signalling to stop. Another load roar of thunder and a crack of white light lit up the area for us to discover it was a very good thing we stopped. 

The front of my boot was just overhanging the edge of the rock and it began to crumble and grind under my weight. Stepping back quickly I realised that I had gotten a bit too close to the cliff's edge. Another flash of lightning lit up the cliff's edge and revealed the cave I had been looking for to our right. "Prince, get Sean in there quickly!" I pointed towards the opening of the cave and he began following me once again.

The cave was definitely large enough for all of us so Prince had no problem moving around with his antlers. I watched as Prince laid down carefully on the floor of the cave as to not let Sean slip off, I went and wrapped Sean's arm around my shoulder and lifted him as I lumbered him towards the back of the cave. I turn and look back to Prince quickly to see him licking the cuts on his leg and not paying attention to me, I wave my hand and an array of candles suddenly light up around us and illuminating a small bed against the back wall of the cave. 

I lay Sean on the bed carefully on his side so that I have access to the wound on his back. I put my hand under the bed and grab a small metal box and open it up, taking out some sterile bandages, antiseptic wipes and a needle and thread. I lay all of these things down on a bedside table and start to remove Sean's rain coat from him and put it to one side, I then started to unbutton his checkered shirt and peel the soaked fabric carefully from his skin and wound. 

I took one last look at his face to make sure he was still passed out otherwise the next few minutes are going to be very painful. His eyes were still shut and his breathing shallow "I am sorry Sean but this may hurt a little" I whispered to his unconscious being. I threaded up the needle and began the tedious task of sewing back together Sean's skin. I began stitching where the gash begun at the top of his left shoulder and continued to where it stopped and the bottom right of his back.

Once I had finished stitching I wiped the now dried blood from the wound with the antiseptic wipes and took out a large set of bandages to wrap around his back and chest to prevent the wound becoming infected. As I stood from the side of the bed I noticed his body begin to shake forgetting that I had removed his shirt and coat, I grabbed a blanket from under the bed and laid it on him then walked over to check on Prince seeing him asleep on the floor.

The storm outside the cave raged on with the sky nearly pitch black to only be painted occasionally with streaks of white. I sat just inside the cave opening watching the storm unfold through the hours and thinking. The way the dark clouds moved in the sky reminded me of Fenrir in my dream and the way that he made the shadows dance around the room. 

I started to hear movement from the back of the cave and saw the Sean had moved and was laying on his back, causing him some pain. I went over and moved his body so he was laying sideways and used a pillow to keep him there. His face was contorted in pain and discomfort with his eyes scrunched up and his teeth clenched together as he drew sharp breaths in. I rest my hand on his cheek and began to sing a lullaby to try and calm him in his sleep.

"Open my chest and colour my spine, I'm giving you all, I'm giving you all, Swallow my breath, And take what is mine, I'm giving you all, I'm giving you all.

I'll be the blood, If you'll be the bones, I'm giving you all, I'm giving you all, So lift up my body, And lose all control, I'm giving you all, I'm giving you all.

You hover like a hummingbird, Haunt me in my sleep, you'll sailing from another world
Sinking in my sea, oh, You're feeding on my energy, I'm letting go of it, She wants it.

And I run from wolves, ooh, Breathing heavily, at my feet, And I run from wolves, ooh, Tearing into me, Without teeth."

I could see Sean's face relax slightly as I continued on with the lullaby.

"I can see through you, We are the same, it's perfectly strange, You run in my veins, how can I keep you, inside my lungs, I breathe what is yours, You breathe what is mine.

You hover like a hummingbird, Haunt me in my sleep, you'll sailing from another world
Sinking in my sea, oh, You're feeding on my energy, I'm letting go of it, He wants it.

And I run from wolves, ooh, Breathing heavily, At my feet, And I run from wolves, ooh, Tearing into me, Without teeth, And you can follow, You can follow me, you can follow, You can follow me.

You hover like a hummingbird, Haunt me in my sleep, You're sailing from another world
Sinking in my sea, oh, 'You're feeding on my energy, I'm letting go of it' she once said.

And I run from wolves, ooh, Breathing heavily, At my feet, And I run from wolves, ooh
Tearing into me, Without teeth, And you can follow, You can follow me andYou can follow, You can follow me and, And you can follow, You can follow me
You can follow.

You can follow me"