I still have this dream from time to time, the jungle, plane going down into the trees, the deafening sound of the crash, a moment of silence and me getting up from the metal floor. Shocked, mind scrambled, getting my senses back and looking around. There's Conrad sitting on the floor next to me, grimacing in pain and holding his thigh, but giving me a thumbs up to not worry. The high sun priestess that escaped with us is cracking open the medkit. Then Geno runs up to me. There's blood dripping from her nose, leaving stains on her white shirt, she asks if I'm ok. I nod, still picking out the details in the scene, the broken port windows, green foliage outside, the whole hull of the aircraft slightly shifted to the right side. My head hurts and vision is still blurry, I notice that one of my glasses is broken. I grab myself, checking if all of my bones are intact. They are, but the pain of the impact throwing my body against the chair in front starts to take over the shock. Geno picks me up from the floor back on my feet, says that the front is horrible, it stopped on a big tree. I suddenly remind myself that Niwen and Ksi were there, my fiancee was the pilot, Ksi was the copilot. I almost can feel my heart stopping when I glance towards the pilot cabin and see a mess of scrambled steel and shattered glass. I forget about the pain again and rush towards it. Niwen was dead, a big shard of glass from the front window pierced his chest, his right side down from shoulder was mostly crushed, bones broken and open wounds, staining everything around with crimson. Yet he looked so calm, eyes closed, head tilted forwards, almost like sleeping on the chair there, only the blood from his mouth and nose did not fit the picture, this image is now forever burned into my mind. Looking at my dead lover, tears running down my cheeks, just standing there for what seemed like hours, till Geno again shook me back to my senses and screamed that we have to help her. She turned me around. Ksi was alive, unconcious, but alive, with a blank mind I reached to pick her up, but Geno grabbed my arms and pulled me back, once again shaking me back to reality. "What are you doing? Look" she pointed to Ksi's left side. It was her arm, broken and caught between the jagged steel of the destroyed front panel, rivets and bolts had cut the flesh deep and were steadily dripping blood on the floor. We needed to free Ksis arm and stop the bleeding before it would be too late. Me and Geno tried to pull the metal apart, but in our mental state and physical condition we couldn't do that, we tried to put a pressure bandaid on her arm to stop the bloodloss, that didn't work either, Ksi's left arm was just in too much of a horrible condition. We, no, I had to do something to save the collie girl, it was my fault she was here in the first place. At that moment the shock, the pain, the helplessness broke me. I stopped thinking emotionaly, went and grabbed the emergency tool kit, telling Geno to hold Ksi tight and keep pressuring on her arm. I took out the hatchet and poured as much disinfectant on it and Ksi's joint as I possibly could. Geno understood what I wanted to do, "are you sure this is the only way?" she asked, I didn't reply, I just took a swift and powerful swing... Then I wake up, my breathing is heavy as I stare into the ceiling in the almost pitch-black room. It takes me a few seconds to realize it was a dream and hear her breathing, Ksi is sleeping next to me. I calm down and events past the crash keep playing in my mind. The sun priestess helped us with stopping the blood and bandaging the wound, that I remember, also I remember picking Ksi up and carrying her on my back for kilometers from the wreckage. Sun guides us to a tribe that has contact with the local pilgrims, we are evacuated. After that came the hospital. Her parents gotten the news and wanted her back to India once she was stable enought for transportation. Ksi refused as she held my arm tight during the phone call... I guess that's where the heart stings began. Admitedly the first days I've spend at the hospital by her side were out of a sense of responsibility and guilt over getting Ksi involved in the expedition and crippling her. Through the days of surgery and medical treatment I didn't leave her side, pretty much sleeping in the hospital hallway. Once she was feeling better, we've arranged transport back to Poland. The following months during which I helped Ksi and assisted her in therapy led to affection. Those feelings helped us both, I found a passion that cured the sorrow in my heart after losing Niwen, Ksi found strenght and support in me, and as it turned out, she was attracted to strong-willed, dominant women what too turned into affection. Soon enought we went on our first date as a couple and woke up embraced in the bed of her apartment. There is just one thing that won't stop bothering me whenever I think about those past days. Even after all this time she still doesn't know that it was me who cut off her left arm back then. I never told her, am sure Geno also will never tell her. I feel that I should, but I am simply afraid to do so now...
Thank you~ A few people did. I never got around to finishing the proper stories with my characters and nowadays it's pointless to try getting back to them, as the language used was probably pretty bad. So a few lore inspired pieces like this is the next best thing that I can do.
Thank you~ A few people did. I never got around to finishing the proper stories with my characters a
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