Anyone hurt?

Lacey woke slowly, her head aching and her vision blurry. As she started to be aware of her surroundings, she noticed Lilly standing over Silvia softly nudging her, trying to get her to wake up. Before slipping back into unconsciousness again.

Suddenly she awoke again. Where was Tim? Her vision was not quite as blurry and she tried looking around, her head still hunting.

Turning over she found that she was not hurt badly, nothing seemed broken, all that hurt was her head which was pounding so bad she had a hard time concentrating.

As she sat up she noticed her arm was bleeding and her legs were scratched up. She began to rub her head to relieve her headache but quickly pulled her hand back away from her head. It was covered in blood.

Seeing the blood, she blacked out again. She came again, sitting up, then she looked around. All the trees were all small spindly things with hardly any to no growth, they all looked dead.

The bushes also were just a bunch of dead looking twigs and they all had moss and other odd-looking growth and vines growing around and up them. The air had an odd smell of rotting plants.

A groan came from beside her, she turned slightly to see Silvia laying beside her. Lilly curled up beside Silvia. Silvia slowly sat up with a wince holding her arm.

"Are you hurt badly? Can you move everything?" She asked Silvia, looking her over, she had a bruise on her cheek and a scratch above her eye, Silvia slowly moved each one of her limbs one at a time in answer.

She then looked over at Lacey, her eyes going wide. "Are you ok, your head is covered in blood." She said, Lacey nodded. "I don't think anything is broken. Where is Tim?" Lacey said, looking around but still did not see him.

"I don't know. I just woke up." Silvia said, looking around too. "Where? Where are we?" She said, "The other side of the island? But it looks so different." Lacey answered, the ground beneath was musty, Lacey stood up wincing at the pain in her leg and arm.

"We must find Tim." Lacey said, Silvia followed her up. Now standing up they could look out over what looked like a swamp. Lacey looked down at her still white dress, the fuzzy warm feeling that she had grown to appreciate was no longer there and felt alone, and scared and afraid.

Silvia's outfit was solid and covered in dirt, the pack of her side that she always wears was in place. The girls and Lilly had only gone a couple yards when they heard a growl. "Tim!!" They called and were answered with a cry of pain. They spotted him by a dead bush and ran over to him.

He lay on the ground holding his leg, the fur of his clothes was covered in blood. "Ohh.." Silvia gasped covering her mouth. Tim's face was white and covered in sweat, the girls knelt beside him. "Your leg." Lacey said.

"I can feel it, you don't have to tell me." Tim whispered. "Lilly!" Silvia called but the bird had disappeared. "Can you lacey, get me some vines and small branches, to fix my leg?" Tim said, struggling to sit up.

Lacey nodded to Tim and got up and looked around them, only a couple dead trees and bushes where is sight.

She went to the tree and broke off a couple long branches and collected some vines, then headed back, she came up to Tim and Silvia to see her holding his leg, then Tim yelled a string of noneligible words, as Silvia pulled.

Silvia jumped back and stared. Tim lay on the ground Lacey herself recovered and set the branches and vines beside him then stepped back.

Tim sat back up and looked at the stuff Lacey had got for him. "Could I get a little help?" He asked, both girls stood like statues. "Sorry." Tim muttered.

Lacey kneeled beside him again. "How? What should I do?" She asked. "I need you to strap the branches to my leg to keep it in place." Tim instructed Lacey nodded, and tried her best to follow his instructions.

When she was done his leg was supported by the branches and tied with the vines, Tim nodded at her work. "Nice! Work!" Tim said.

She smiled and got up, then looked down at the two brown stains on her white skirt. "Oh. NO!" She cried, Silvia who had been watching from afar, now came up.

"There's a way for you to keep it up and out of your way. Here let me help you." Silvia said. Taking hold of Lacey's skirt, she pulled as much as she could to the front of Lacey, after bunching it together she passed the bunch between her legs.

"There. Hold this." Silvia said to Lacey. Lacey took the bunch at her back and Silvia walked around to her back. Taking the bunches back from Lacey she split it into two equal parts.

"Ok, give me both your hands." She said to Lacey. Lacey put her hand behind her back and Silvia put a section in each of her hands. "Ok now tie it in front." Silvia said as she came back around to her front.

Lacey tied the two sections into a double knot. "There." Said Silvia. "Now you can walk without ruining your skirt." When Silvia was done, Lacey stood in what looked to be short pants.

"Thanks! I don't know why it's white, but it's a dumb color to be in a swamp." Lacey relied. "What is that dress anyways?" Tim question. "It's magic, it changes color and." Lacey was saying but Silvia cut her off with a chuckle.

"And flies!" She said the girls started laughing. And Tim looked lost because he had missed the event. They all turned to Lilly as she came back, she looked bad, her wings had to be broken and some of her feathers had been rubbed off from the landing.

Silvia rushed to check her, she lifted a wing, Lilly pulled away tucking them against her sides. "She broke her wing." Announced Silvia, checking her other wing.

"Where was she?" Lacey asked. "I don't know." Answered Silvia. "Well we better get them splinted so they can heal correctly otherwise she may never fly again." Tim said. Lacey and Silvia pain staking splinted both of Lilly's wings, while Tim lay on the ground.

Once her wings were set Silvia instructed Lilly to keep watch over Tim. "So Lilly, keep Tim safe while we go see if we can find a way to get back over the mountain." "Hey! Be careful." Tim called to them as they headed towards the mountain.

The girls pushed their way through the limbs and brambles. Soon they came to the edge of the mountain looking up, their faces showed surprise and despair at the same time.

The cliffs started at the base and went up as far as they could see. "Great!" Silvia exclaimed. "Now what are we going to do? Or maybe we can get around it on the shoreline?" Said Lacey.

"Well it is getting late. We will have to try again tomorrow. We better get to Lilly and Tim." Silvia said.

To be continued-