#ailesswhumptoberday13bleedingthroughbandages

[auroragehenna]

AI-less Whumptober

Day 14 Bleeding through bandages, Field Medicine, No anesthesia

TW/CW: Blood, cold family, hiding injury, slash on arm from sword, forced to mask Word count: 946

“Argh! Shit!”, Harmonia yelled. Beads of blood started to quell out of a long slash on her arm.

The magic possessing the sword that cut her went out and sent the weapon clattering to the ground.

Harmonia clutched her hand over the cut, but blood was already squeezing out between her fingers. She tried her healing magic, but the bleeding didn’t stop. “Shit, shit, shit. Did you go for a cursed strike?!”, she asked the magic. Of course she didn’t get an answer. She had already pulled it back. “Just peachy!”, she spit out.

“Harmonia? Are you on there?”, a female voice called from outside.

Harmonia’s head jerked up at the voice. “Oh, come on, how much misfortune can one celestial have in day?”, she groaned quietly. Pressing her teeth together in pain.

“Let me rephrase maybe. I know that you’re in there. I want to see you in the foyer presentable in no less than five minutes.”

“I will be there mother.”

“Good.”, the female voice replied coldly.

Harmonia pushed herself to walk over to the wall where there was a little box on the cupboard. She opened the door and rummaged through the bottles and patches until she found what she wanted. Blood absorbing bandages. As quickly and as professionally as she could she wrapped her bleeding arm and cleaned the blood of the floor with a simple wave of her hand. Then she flew to her room. Fortunately her maids had already laid out clothes for her and now helped her get changed in lightspeed.

After six minutes and 17 seconds she was standing presentably dressed in the foyer next to the other oldest sisters and brothers. Their parents had important guests over so naturally they had to pull up the entire stupid theatre. Right now, she was smiling and greeting the guests. It cost her the upmost of self-discipline to smile and act through the pain in her arm. They moved to the fancier dining room, which Harmonia did not fail to notice, had been freshly cleaned and decorated. After a bit more of friendly chattery the maids got everyone seated and the first round of food was served swiftly. Apparently they wanted to keep them mouth-dead Harmonia figured.

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Most of the meal didn't stick with Harmonia, she was too focused on looking like she was enjoying herself, with looking noble and like she wasn't in pain. It was also getting gradually more difficult to even hear the conversation. Well, to understand the words. To be fair her parents and the oldest sister made sure to bind her into the talking as little as possible. Harmonia couldn’t judge them for it. Her skills in that department still needed a lot of honing as is and now while she was feeling so bad she had no doubt it would be much worse.

The sister sitting next to Harmonia discretely touched her arm and searched her gaze. When her little sister was finally looking at her she saw barely hidden pain in them and she quickly let go of her arm. The pain faded a little bit.

Harmonia knew her sister was trying to warn her. To keep up appearances but it was so hard. When she had touched her arm Harmonia could have fainted from the pain. But she clenched her fist under the table and stepped her game  up again. She didn’t want to ruin this for her family. And who knows how they would react if she did. If only this headache wouldn’t be. She reached out for the seasoning in front of her to spice up the meat on her plate. Maybe that would bring her senses back a bit. Harmonia noticed that she had to tense her whole arm to keep it from shaking. As she closed her hand around the spice bottle her sleeve slipped up and revealed the start of the bandage. It was tainted red. Harmonia’s breath caught. She checked her clothing when nobody was looking but there was no blood on the. This magic was doing its job. Harmonia urged and begged her brain to work so she could think of some way to get out of here and care for her wounds. But she couldn’t think of anything. Her brain was muffled sirup. Only vaguely she now noticed that her heartbeat was kind of skittish. Just hold out. Just hold out. After nearly collapsing multiple times the meeting was blessedly, finally coming to an end. They said goodbye to their guests and the maids guided them outside.

“Mother, father, I would like to burrow Harmonia to show her the new tools in terms of etiquette I have learned yesterday. May I?”, Older sister asked.

Harmonia was barely conscious at this point but her parents must have agreed because now her sister had grabbed her left arm and was pulling her up from the chair. They made it outside of the room and into one of the lesser visited side rooms before Harmonia fainted.

Her older sister just looked at her for a moment before sighing and starting to take off some layers of fancy clothing. As she uncovered her right arm she sucked in a breath. “I have to get Akisa.”, she decided before getting up and leaving the room. Her medic skilled sibling could surely tend to the wound, it wouldn’t be much more than a simple spell for her, besides she couldn’t create drama by getting a doctor. She locked the door behind her, both to protect Harmonia from getting seen by others and to protect her from herself. And her reckless stubbornness. Then she flew up and searched the mansion.

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