Big Trouble by Andrew Seiple

Author:Andrew Seiple [Seiple, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12: CORNERED CHAOS

It happened so fast.

Chase fought to bring the crossbow up, grabbed for the trigger, missed it, then found it.

SNAP!

The next thing she knew she was flat on her butt, and the crossbow was crashing off a shelf nearby, knocking the stack of staves over.

Critical Hit!

Your Archery skill is now level 1!

LUCK+1

From somewhere far away, she heard someone coughing and choking, hard, like he was vomiting. A red ‘143’ drifted up into the air, and she blinked in surprise. I killed him?

Then something hit her side, hard, and she screamed. The force of the strike rolled her over and she crashed into a shelf as the last of the staves clattered and rattled down, thumping off her. She heard a muffled curse from behind her, near, so near, and scrambled for all she was worth. Her side was on fire, and it hurt to move, but they’d drawn swords and she thought that getting stabbed would hurt far more.

“Chase!” She heard Renny yell, then there was a rip of cloth, and she felt cold pain lick against one calf as she pushed aside a box of things that clattered and hummed and shattered and crawled back into the space. There behind the shelf she crouched and listened to cursing as whoever was behind her tried to maneuver through. She blinked, confused at the words that showed up in her sight as she went.

You have been afflicted with the Bleeding condition!

“Manipulate Air!” Renny called, and Chase shook, feeling cold, wondering why...

...until the pain blossomed from her leg, cold pain and warm wetness, and she gasped as she realized she was bleeding.

How? How hurt am I?

“Phantasmal Picture!” Renny called, and her attacker yelled in alarm, heading further away from her shelf. Renny had bought her time, Chase knew. Time to... what? The crossbow was out there, and she didn’t have enough room to draw and use her hurler stones, and... and...

Wow, it was hard to think.

She pulled her legs up, and her side flashed with pain, and Chase gasped. Something. She had something for this. It was just so hard to remember. Healing. It was healing something.

“Healing?”

Nothing.

“Minor healing...”

No, no, that wasn’t it. Now it was getting harder to see. Renny was shouting something outside, and someone was shouting back, and everything was darkened.

“Less... healing...” That was close, that was so close, Chase thought, feeling the blood around her breasts now, where she lay. I’m in a puddle of my own blood, Chase realized. I’m going to die.

No!

I am NOT going to die here! Not like this!

She forced her mind back, forced herself to ignore the grinding pain in her side, and the throbbing wet pulse from her leg, and cast her mind back to the last time she’d seen her status sheet.

And Chase remembered.

INT+1

“Lesser.... Heal... ing.” She sighed.

You have healed yourself 12 points!

Your Lesser Healing skill is now level 4!

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