The Arrow

## Part 1

It was sunny but pretty cold day. A lot of snow was lying on ground and on branches of taller pine trees. Neron and few other people were out of home and either hunting or gathering supplies. Neron was gathering pinecorns that grew in south part of the forest. Those fruits can be used in syrups receipts or just as food.

As he was walking through the forest and looking for pinecorns, he hears some sound very smilar to footsteps in nearest bushes next to him, but he decided to ignore it.

But as sound repeated few times he turned to source of sound to try to see what it is.

Suddenly someone shot an arrow out from the bushes. It hit Neron’s shoulder. Shocked he instantly grabbed the arrow to pull it out, but then remembered that it might be a bad idea. He got surrounded suddenly by armed people.

As he tried to find some way out his over-sharp in middle and colors became more saturated and blurry on borders. His hearing also became way more sensitive. He opened his wings, ready to take off the ground. He did not wanted to let direct fight to happen because of accident that happened months ago. As his instincts were telling to fight or flee, he picked to flee.

Before anyone could capture him he took off. As fast he tried to reach any safe place. Then he spotted the house he and his friends are living in. His wings started to feel tired and he had to land, almost falling over. He looked to his right. He could see the stone beach down of the hill, where Lee had found him with injured wing almost a year ago.

„it’s almost December” he thought. As he was calming down and adrenaline was running out, pain in his shoulder became more and more intense. He started heading home. He almost fell down few times.

Now he was standing in front of the door. He opened them and walked in. No-one was home so he partially lied down, partially fell down on the carpet in middle of the room.

He was facing the door so he could see anyone who was walking in eventually. He closed his eyes.

## Part 2

Sudden door opening made Neron to wake up from his painful nap. It was Sash who was entering the building. He was holding 2 rabbits he hunted. Instantly after going in, Sash saw Neron lying on carpet with arrow in his left arm.

Hold in there, I’ll help you! – shocked Sash almost shouted and then quickly ran to kitchen to do something with rabbits.

It took him few minutes to find right for now solution, which was just a throw them into fridge. Sash then came back to Nero, helped him to get back on his feet and then led him to bathroom.

There was a bench that if needed, could be used as bed. Nero sat on it and looked what Sash is doing. Sash was searching for any tool, with which he could take arrow out. When he finally found it, he talked up to Neron and started to explain what he is going to do to Nero, which felt way too badly to focus on words.

Sash then grabbed arrow with the the tool and started to pull it. Taking the arrow out didn’t took long. Some green substance was leaking out of tip of the arrow. Sash quickly realized that substance is a poison. He then quickly went to search though stuff in shelves to find the antidote. After finding it he handed it to Nero. After noticing, that he is too weak to hold bottle of medicine high enough, Sash held it for him [I’M NOT SHIPPING THEM].

The medicine was very disgusting but he managed to drink whole. Sudden wave of nausea came and he barely could stop himself from vomiting. He then took the light blue turtleneck off, so Sash could bandage the injured shoulder. White t-shirt he had under had a big stain from blood on left sleeve. Sash then cleaned and bandaged the wound.

Neron’s turtleneck got put into some water in await to get washed later.

Sash then left the bathroom let Nero rest, and also to prepare the rabbits he carried home. While he was in middle of preparing them Lee, Secret and Tassos came back home. They carried herbs and some fish there and Sash used those to prepare dinner for all of the housemates he is living with.