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They were only coming back from a food run; with Ye Eun leading, she didn’t see until it was too late. There was a loud thud – followed by a yell. ( she saw the blood. she only assumed the worst ). In only a span of seconds in panic could the woman assess the damage and drag the younger into a cleared storage room- where she only assumed it’d be safer- to quickly start in on the medical aid. Ye Eun was sure the blade didn’t penetrate anywhere fatal.. but then again, she wasn’t even a doctor.. and all the bleeding suggested otherwise.
“Come on, Rubi – Hey.. Let me see those eyes. Don’t close your eyes–”
Ye Eun spoke to her as leveled as she could, wiping her own tears with the back of her hand; there was no use in blurring her own vision while tending to this big a wound ( and she didn’t want Rubi to see her panic. Ye Eun never panics ). Curses were muttered under her breath and she worked with wiping away the blood- why was there so much? Applying pressure seemed to have slowed it down enough, but Rubi had lost enough to weaken. As if the disinfectant didn’t give enough of a shock to her system..
The woman was too focused on the younger’s leg, back to the door with an ear out still to block out any unwanted, that she almost didn’t catch what the other had been saying – almost. There was no pause in her actions but she did offer a frown, almost disappointed that Rubi would eventhink of coming to such a conclusion. Ye Eun didn’t even want to humor that with a response and instead raised a hand to swipe at the girl’s tear-stained cheeks with her thumb ( smudges of blood followed.. she couldn’t help that much ).
“Don’t worry about that. Just keep your eyes on me.” Ye Eun felt more focused this time around, her own panic and dejection set back in place of focus and – fear? Of course she was scared; Rubi was in pain, she was bleeding out. They had no anesthetics.. Their medical supplies were- at most- basic, and there wasn’t much Ye Eun could do. She was scared. Ye Eun was scared. For her. For them. There were many other pressing dangers plaguing this earth: natural disasters. hungry animals. the infected. other human beings. If she were to lose Rubi over a damn accidental knife wound of all things, she would really.. lose it.
Brows were furrowed and Ye Eun looked back down to the laceration. It was clean – the bleeding slowed down by a lot, so it looked good enough to dress. Turning over to the side, she quickly reached over to the medical pack to fish out the gauze, bandages. In the meantime, she uttered out soft assurances to the other just to make conversation, to keep her awake. The last thing she wanted was for Rubi to close her eyes.. only to not open them again.
“Hey.. Hey, keep your eyes on me, okay? You’ll be okay. Just —- Talk to me. Talk about something, like, uh.. animals. You grew up on a farm. Tell me more about that, okay?”
It was getting hard to sit up and she couldnt help laying back slowly-- her breathing was a little labored from the adrenaline of it all, it all seriousness, if she was in her right mind, she would have been able to access the sittuation herself with her basic medical knowledge but she was exhausted and panicking. Her skin was growing pale from the lack of blood and also the lack of food between the two of them and her body was weak because of the lack of energy and nutrients. It probably went into play on how she felt right now-- but at this moment, she felt like if she was going to die, she didn't want to hurt Yeeun; she didn't want to hurt anyone.
She really felt all those tugs of fatigue finally getting to her but she was scared and it was evident on her expression as she struggled to stay awake-- tears welling up in her eyes and pooling pitifully as she gazed up at the other with a sort of unspoken definitive answer in them as if she'd already accepted that she would die. Her tongue dipped past her lips to moisten them as they'd grown dry in the recently harsh atmoshpere as she breathed in slowly and deep and attempted to calm her fastly beating heart, but this at least was reminding her that she was alive. "I hope the animals inside the Zoo are all right . . ." she murmured softly as she finally moved her eyes away from the other to look around the area before looking back to the other as if she was afraid that if she looked away-- the other would disappear from her sight.
"I wanted to be a Zoo veterinarian and take care of them all." she softly spoke before breathing in slowly and deeply, her eyes closing just momentarily as she tried to relax in her spot against the floor that was obnoxiously cold. "Most of all I wanted to take care of baby pandas." she smiled to herself at this thought before shifting and slightly whincing at the pain that shot through her leg. Even if she did live, what could she contribute with a messed up leg like this? Maybe it was better if she died, it would be better for Yeeun. She'd gone silent, staring at the other as she did and in these moments of silence the tears that were welling up began to pour from the corners of her eyes and she only just quietly watched her for a moment-- letting out small gasps of distressed air and breathes.
"Panda's are really tiny when they're born, did you know that Eonni?" She finally spoke after a while but her voice was raspy and broken as she spoke, despite her attempts of trying to be cheerful and (failing) You can hold them just like babies at one point-- can even put them inside cribs . . . I always thought that, 'If I Could raise my Own Panda baby, i've lived a full life.'" At these words she laughed softly and reached up to rub at her eyes that were blinded by tears. "If we get out of this, I wanna show you the baby panda's, Eonni." she whispered this even quieter as she took in a deep and unsteady breath.












