We’re On An Adventure (Stormwind)

Lady shoved herself in front of Newton, halting his progress. “No!” She insisted. “We are staying right here until you’re healed!”

“Just help me walk,” Retorted Newton, trying to hobble out of their makeshift shelter. This only reopened some of the wounds on his body, which began to seep fresh blood.

Lady hurried to support her friend, eyes wide. “We can’t leave while you’re hurt like this!”

Newton growled with frustration, trying a new approach. The tom tried to get to his paws, a little wobbly as he mewled “I’m fine, Lady, we need to keep moving...-“ The Male hissed softly when he put weight on his bad paw.

“It was a gully,” Lady corrected. “Way too small to be a gorge. It flooded and we got separated.”

“Wait!” Newton mewled suddenly. “Um... we walked through a gorge.” The tom was narrowing his eyes, straining to come up with more to tell Lady so she could stop worrying about him and they could continue on.

Lady pinned her ears back. "That was half a moon ago," she said weakly, referring to his first sentence.

“Um...” Newton had to think for a moment. “We were leaving the mountains, and got snowed in uber a rock.” After another moment, he added “And we shared a mouse before we went to sleep yesterday.”

Lady was really looked alarmed by now. “What’s the last thing you remember?” She asked weakly.

Newton tried to think, but after another few moments looked up at the ceiling of their makeshift shelter and sighed with exasperation.

Lady pinned her ears back, looking alarmed. “Do you at least remember getting injured?”

Newton thought about that for a moment, then shook his head.

Lady stared at him in surprise and worry. “We spent ages looking for shelter last night, remember?”

Newton lifted his head weakly. “How... how did we get here?”

When Lady was finally finished with both of their pelts, she dragged herself up into a sitting position, her stomach grumbling.

Newton nudged her with his nose, an affectionate bump to say ‘thank you’ from the tom who had no energy for words.

It took Lady quite a while to clean Newton’s fur and bring it back to its normal state, and then she had to start on her own fur.

Newton couldn’t even muster the energy to purr, though he pressed weakly against his friend’s grooming.

Lady frowned, staring to try and groom her friend’s scratched, mud-laden pelt.

Newton slowly shook his head, laying it back down on his good paw and sighing.

“Newton?” Lady asked softly, the worry clear in her voice. “Are you all right?”

Newton was staring blankly ahead, his eyes lidded with exhaustion but unable to close fully all at once.

Lady woke up shortly before dawn, blinking blearily and trying to remember what had happened. When the events of the day before flooded her mind, she almost jumped up before she remembered Newton was by her side.

Newton managed to get sleep only in bursts, the pain from his leg keeping him from falling into the same deep sleep that Lady was managing.

Lady quickly dropped off into the deep sleep of the exhausted.