CHAPTER 48
All attention now focused on Penrys’s leg.
They’d cut off her clothing and washed her roughly before draping a blanket over most of her to give her some warmth. Khizuwi had shooed Najud away from his examination of the leg, and he busied himself with washing her face and hands thoroughly, and soaking all of the blood out of her hair. They never did find the skull fracture that had generated the blood, but since it seemed to have healed cleanly, they ignored it. She slept unmoving through all the attention, though she whined when Khizuwi poked at her leg.
“Come look,” Khizuwi finally said.
Najud crouched down where Khizuwi pointed, and swallowed. It had taken a while to soak the cloth padding off of the injury, and for the first time he saw it clearly.
“The bones are firmly
