hasapoint: an old woman's hand proffering a sword hilt (Like a White Stone)
Need (Sister Lashan) ([personal profile] hasapoint) wrote in [community profile] lukeoutbelow 2022-09-19 08:13 pm (UTC)

"Never mind that," Lashan says. She would like to protest about him losing track of it, that sword is very important to her, but is old enough to put things in perspective. It's not like it's lost lost, anyway.

Lashan gets Galli to tie leads connecting two of the bear's paws to Thistle and the pony and with a little prompting all three horses pull, shifting the bulk of the dead animal and Guts under it. It's fresh enough to still be warm and limp, so trying to get it turned over even more of a trial than its weight alone would make it. The horses' hooves, churning, splash the women to the waist and themselves to the bellies with bloody mud.

Safflower stops and turns back when the pulling gets easier and sniffs Guts some more, snorting and shaking her head with equine disapproval at the stink. As he starts to get his breath back and pick himself up a bit Lashan determines that he's not under death's shadow and she can try and retrieve her old companion. She steps around him, ankle deep in the dark puddle, to where the bear's chest is exposed at a weird angle. Its fore and hind leg are flung wider than they would have gone in life, the joints slowly giving way under the relentless pulling. She bends painfully to root around with her free hand until she finds the hilt of her longsword embedded into the bear's body, hidden by clumps of filthy hair.

The sword pulls free with ease, enchanted not to stick. With it comes a gout of chunky viscera tumbling into the pool of blood collecting under the bear. Lashan steps back, wary of getting trapped under it herself, and straightens even more painfully to look at the boy with an odd expression on her face.

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