Trail Of Bodies

Nina opened her eyes and saw that the world was spinning. "Where am I?" Nina tried to get up but found that she couldn't. There was something on top of her that was preventing her from moving. At a second glance, she saw that it wasn't something but rather someone. Upon seeing that, her heart jumped and she quickly shuffled back, only to bang her head against something.

"Ow!" Nina took a moment to calm down before looking back down on the person that was lying on top of her. "Are you okay?" she asked them while shaking them. It looked like they were unconscious. "Hey, wake up." Nina continued shaking the person but there was still no response. Nina carefully rolled the person over onto their front side and saw that it was the soldier she had been talking with before.

She looked around his body for any visible or obvious injuries but found none. "Phew..." That's a good sign. Nina slowly pushed the soldier off of her and laid him carefully down on the floor. She then tried to get up again but felt a jolt of pain go up her right foot. "Ah!" Nina sat back down and slowly pulled her right leg close to her to examine what was wrong with it.

It didn't look like it was sprained nor did it look like it was a broken bone. She didn't understand what was wrong with it. Nina tried to move it again and felt a jolt of pain once more. "Ow..." She didn't know what was wrong with her leg. Maybe healing it with her water magic might help.

Nina held her hands over her right foot and began healing herself. After wrapping it with water for a minute, she stopped and tried moving it again but found out that the pain was still there. At this point, she was fairly certain that it might be a broken bone. If it had been a sprain or anything else, she would have been able to heal it.

And since it was a broken bone, it meant that she wouldn't be able to move from here. She'll have to look for something to use as a crutch. There was a lot of splintered wood in the debris around so it shouldn't be that hard. After searching around for a bit with her eyes, she found a strong-looking plank a few meters from her.

This was going to be a bit of a stretch. Nina limped over to the plank and picked it up. She then went back to the soldier and examined him more thoroughly this time. After patting his body with her hands and finding nothing at all, she was confused. Why was the soldier unconscious if he didn't sustain any injuries? But from the looks of it, he got knocked out protecting her from the falling debris.

The last thing that she remembered before passing out was getting attacked by a dragon and almost dying to it. As for exactly what happened, she could faintly remember it. All she knew was that most of the soldiers got hit by the dragon's flaming breath and the rest began to run for their lives. The only person that stayed relatively calm and ran to her to help her was this soldier. When the dragon's tail came crashing into the house behind her, the soldier used his body to protect her from the falling stones and wood. It was because of him that she didn't receive any major injuries or potentially die.

Since he saved her life twice now, counting the first time he helped her as one too, it was her duty to help the soldier back to repay him. Even then the soldier didn't look like he had any injuries on his body, Nina decided that it was a good idea to heal him anyway in case there were some. It didn't hurt to be safe and she had plenty of magic power to spare.

While she was doing that, she took this time to look around at her surroundings more carefully. The entire place was destroyed and there were also several corpses around. They were all charred black and whenever Nina spotted one, she would quickly turn away and make a mental note to herself of where it was so she wouldn't look back at it again. The dragon had really wiped out the entire army.

Where was it now though? Surely the knights have encountered it by now and are fighting it or maybe and hopefully, have already defeated the mythical beast. Or worse... the dragon killed them all. Nina felt a chill go down her spine when she thought about that. If the dragon really did take out all the knights then Silverfield had no one else left capable of taking it down. And that meant...

"Brrr..." Nina didn't want to think about that. Silverfield would be doomed if the knights fell. The demons could easily destroy the kingdom if they weren't around. Wait... What if the dragon attack had something to do with the demons? It didn't make sense for a dragon to attack a human civilization for no reason. Maybe it was related to the demons somehow.

Nina was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice that the soldier had woken up and was still continuing to heal him despite already having healed him for several minutes.

"Hey,"

The soldier's voice startled Nina and she almost jumped back in surprise. Luckily, because of her injured foot, she couldn't do that and only shifted back a little in fright. "Oh, you scared me."

"What were you thinking about so intensely that you didn't even notice that your patient woke up?"

"Umm..." Nina pointed around at all the ruined houses and charred corpses in their vicinity. The soldier's eyes followed her finger and he saw all the damage that the dragon caused.

"Oh god..." The soldier got up to his feet but Nina tried to stop him.

"Are you sure that you should do that?" she asked concernedly.

"I'm fine," the soldier told her. He checked his limbs one by one, starting with his head and moving his way down to his legs to make sure they were all fine. After shaking his entire body and thoroughly shaking his legs to make sure that they were indeed fine, he started walking around to explore the carnage left behind by the dragon. "Sh*t!"

"What is it?" Nina saw that the soldier was looking at something ahead of him but since she was sitting on the ground, she couldn't get a good view of it.

"No, don't come here!"

"What?"

"It's... not something you want to see."

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