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We think we are the giants of this world, but what if something bigger came along and thought us a bother, like we do a mouse.

Fallen Magic Snippet

(Snippet from a book I'm writing, "Fallen Magic". Please DO NOT steal/copy.)

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“JOHN!” Blake cried, diving down to catch John before he ate dirt, grunting as the full weight of his friend crashed into him.

“John. John, can you hear me?” John sucked in a ragged breath, glazed eyes staring up dazedly.

“B-Blake? D’ we get ‘er?” Blake glance back at the Captain’s prone form.

“Yeah, buddy,” He said. “We did. Don’t worry about her. Focus on me.”

John coughed and groaned. “Ugh... Hurts...”

Blake pressed down harder on the stab wound. “I know, hang in there.” Nathan stepped warily around the Captain’s body and rooted through the saddlebag on the white and grey stallion, smoothing a hand along it’s hindquarters as it huffed uneasily. With a silent whoop he pulled out a small medical kit, and he brought it over to Blake, who was working to both apply pressure and keep John talking.

“Here,” Nathan said, handing over the kit. “Try this.” Blake nodded, accepting it with a trembling hand. He hesitated.

“Nathan, I–”

“Later,” The boy said sternly, shoving the kit into Blake’s palm. Blake set to work without another word, pouring disinfectant from a small glass vial over the wound, wiping at it with a gauze pad. John moaned miserably, pink eyes hooded and glossy. Nathan had never seen him look so weak, sweat beading along his brow and his normally tan skin pale.

“I know, hang in there. Almost done.” Blake murmured, wrapping bandages around and around until there was no bandaging left. A groan came from nearer to the lake, and Nathan shuffled anxiously. Some of the Royalists who’d only been knocked out were beginning to wake, and the boy had no interest in staying to see what they’d do when they did.