The pain faded, and he opened his eyes to find himself looking upwards at a blue sky framed by the dark walls of the ravine.

He sat up. The world spun around him. Pain registered from every corner of his body.

“Annyka!”

He turned around to see Ashidi rushing over to her sister, who lay in a crumpled heap amongst a mess of sharp rocks. Her left leg hung limply over one of them, clearly having caught against it. Strips of flesh dangled from a tear in her pants, just below the knee. Blood gushed from it, streaming down the side of the rock and pooling at its base.

Nathaniel raced over as Ashidi moved her to flatter ground, lifting her legs out straight in front of her. She pulled off Annyka’s boot, tore a piece of cloth from her pants, and pressed it against the...

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