Thorn in the Paw

[Icekit]

[glow=pink,2,300]Icekit limped in the medicine cat den. Her paw hung limply in front of her. Wedged into it's white paws was a brown thorn, a thin stream of scarlet blood ran down her paw onto her pad. There was four other thorns, one behind her ear, one lodged into her rib, and the worst of all the thorns was in her muzzzle, blood streamed out of that one, a lot, it ran down to her neck. Icekit had tried to lick it off, and clean her wound but all it turned out to do was smudge the blood. SHe had left camp, and ran practically blindly lept into a thorn bush. "Lilyfeather." Icekit called, almost crying, her voice shaky.[/glow]

[Ragged & Others]

Raggedpaw bounded over to the medicine cat den. He glanced at ICekit, and looked at the streams of blood. He gasped in surprize. "Oh dear." He mewed sweetly. "I think Lilyfeathers at moonstone." He said. Raggedpaw tried to decide what to do. Lilyfeather would be back to camp in a couple of hours, of course, by why put this cat in pain that whole time? THat was the most stupid, mouse brained thing a medicine cat could do. "Come on, lets get ya treated he mewed."

[Burningwing]

//is Raggedpaw the medicine cat apprentice? Streamkit was going to be.....//

[Icekit]

[glow=blue,2,300]Icekit looked at her foot awkardly. 'It had to get a thorn in it when Lilyfeather was out!' The small frosty colored kit thought. She followed Raggedpaw, her paw dragging beside her limply as she walked into the den. The smell and scent of herbs mixed together hit her unexspectdly. She couldn't make out many of them, nor could she tell them apart. She smiled at Raggedpaw, a very short smile, and before she knew it, she moveed the paw with the thorn in it, pain shot up her leg. Icekit let out a small hiss, looking helplessy at her paw. Another drop of blpood streamed down her paw and drpped onto the soft moss she was standing on.[/glow]

[Ragged & Others]

//Burny, pm me.//

Raggedpaw looked at the paw, he took his own paw, and lifted it off the moss, to see the blood runnng down in small little streams. It was dug pretty deep, but he knew what herbs to cure it with. First he'ld have to pull the thorn out. If it was deep enough into the paw, it could easily get an infection. Raggedpaw didn't want that to happen. He had been medicine cat apprentice for many moons, practically 5 moons! Digging into his memory he pulled out the herbs to prevent stinging, and the herb to prevent infection. 'Aha! Goldenrod Juice and Chewed Gumweed, along with cobweb and horsetail.'

Raggedpaw looked at Icekit. "This may hurt a little, Icekit." He flicked his ear torward the thorn while, bending down perertrating the movements of his system. He would pull the thorn, yes. His flexed his jaw a few times while leaning torward the thorn. Raggedpaw closed his teeth on the thorn, hard enough to pull it out and gentle enough not to snap or break it. Then came the hard part. He started pulling. He wait until the thorn was free to look up at the kit to see if it hurt a lot.

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[Icekit]

[glow=blue,2,300]Icekit yelped as the brown, black, and gingered colored cat plucked the thorn from her white, and blood smudged paw. She began trembling as the pain shot up her leg, through her body, and finally reached every vein in her body. Shaking her head to rid her of the pain, she stopped trembling. Icekit tried to act cool, "Oh boy, what's next?!" She joked but her voice was just a little shaky though. Icekit's pearly white pelt layed smooth on her shoulders though.[/glow]

[Ragged & Others]

Raggedpaw quickly went to the back of the den and searched for the four herbs. The first to herbs he reconized was the sticky cobweb wrapped neatly around a stick, to prevent anything from happening to it. Next was the Gumweed, it's green stalks were placed upon a oversized leaf, so that nothing could hurt it. Goldenrod was the herb he searched for.

But there was a problem. They were out. 'Oh shoot. She' s going to have to go without stinging.' He though and shook his head. That was bad to send a cat off with a little pain. But it was okay, because the rest of the herbs were here. Goldenrod juice was just something to remove a little aftermath pain. It wasn't that important.

Raggedpaw found the horsetail easily, and removed it from the shelves. But before he padded away from the shevles, he looked at the contents, to test himself. There were a couple herbs he didn't reconize... but he didn't reconize the basics, there were lavender, and PawPaw, and Marigold.

Gracefully running back to Icekit's question, he gave her a slight smile. "Herbs. He answered, and waited for her to tell him she was ready for the herbs to be applied to her wound.

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[Icekit]

[glow=navy,2,300]Icekit nodded. She wanted the pain to go away. Why was he so happy that she was hurt, or was the apprentice just acting happy. "Don't forgot, I have three other thorns after that one..." She almost cried. Thorns, Icekit made herself promise that she would never go into another thorn bush again.[/glow]

[Ragged & Others]

Raggedpaw looked dearlrious at Icekit. He gently applied all three herbs to the wounds. He moved onto the next thorn, anxious. Pulling the one behind her ear out, he covered it with cobweb to the bleeding, and then he applied the herbs, he was running out of horsetail though. He'ld have to cut down on the next to. On the third thorn, he carefully only took a quarter of the horsetail to apply on the wound, and then the one on her chest. He pulled it out once again with his jaws, and covered it. "All finished...! ?"That wasn't that bad was it now?"

[/b] He spoke gently. He knew she felt stiff and soar, that's how everyone felt after the thorns being pulled out one after another.[/b][/color][/center]