She’ll be safe now. The world spun and turned black.
Olivia saw Cap fall and felt a deep pit open up in her stomach. Nooo! She stumbled to his side, blood dripping from shallow cuts along her arms where she'd deflected the bandits' blows. She could feel the unpleasant sticky sensation of gore splattered across her face and neck, and something fleshy squished against the bottom of her boots, but she didn't care.
Cap's usually cheery face was so drawn and pale he was almost unrecognizable, like a morbid caricature. Olivia frantically felt for a pulse, sighing in relief at the faint beat in his neck. She tore off the blanket covering his chest, bunching it into a thicker pad and pressing it against the wound.
"Keep it together, boy-o," she said, looking around for her pack with the first a
