The Redwood Rebel (The Redwood War Book 1) by Lorna George

Author:Lorna George [George, Lorna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-10-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Naomi could feel the poison start to take effect. Her vision blurred at the edges and her movements were sluggish. Finding the right plant to nullify the dart wasn’t going to happen at this late stage, and none of the Korenian soldiers knew what they were looking for, risking making things worse. Thankfully the poison used by clabberts wasn’t deadly, but it was going to make her almost completely useless for the rest of the day, and slow tomorrow.

She should have just let His Royal Pain-In-The-Backside take the hit. She was more useful to them at the moment than he was anyway, and out of everyone to lose for a day, he was by far the most expendable. Honestly, she had no idea what had made her jump in the way of the dart, she knew better. It hadn’t been a practical decision at all.

Now here she was, trying to suck poison from a wound that was in quite possibly the most awkward place imaginable, and probably failing abysmally.

‘Here, let me.’

She looked up to find Arun back again, offering her a water skin and Sergeant Naseem a roll of clean linen bandages. He’d stomped off only moments ago and she’d hoped he would stay well out of the way. She was vulnerable right now, and she knew she was less inclined to be fair or diplomatic in this frame of mind.

Sitting down on the log beside her, she watched in a daze as he took her injured arm and sealed his mouth over the wound. She was about to protest, but the sharp pain in her arm let her know he was doing a better job than she had been. He spat twice, then took the water skin from her slack fingers, rinsed his mouth, then carefully washed the wound.

‘Do you think it needs stitching?’ he asked, looking up at Sergeant Naseem.

‘I don’t think so, it’s pretty small,’ replied the other man. ‘What do you think, My Lady?’

Arun glanced at her, then back to the Sergeant. ‘She’s in no fit state-‘

‘I’m fine,’ she interrupted him, staring at the cut and blinking. ‘We need to move.’

Her voice was slurred, her tongue swollen and her teeth feeling as though they were made of lead. She saw the way Arun shot a warning glance at the Sergeant for daring to ask her opinion, then looked pensively at her arm.

‘No magic,’ she warned, guessing his thoughts. ‘Bind it tight, then we leave. We need to circle West a bit, alright? Clabbert nest in groups.’

The Sergeant nodded, moving to do as she bid, but Arun was there, suddenly snatching up the bandages. ‘I’ll do it. You see to the men.’

She watched as though through a window as Arun began to bandage her arm and Sergeant Naseem winked at her from behind him. The gesture was confusing, and she continued to stare even after he went back to the other soldiers, speaking quietly to the young guard, Rostam. They both looked over, and the worry faded from Rostam’s face with whatever the Sergeant had told him.

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