Code of Shadows

Mentality and Physicality (Part 34)

I opened my eyes again to find that I hadn't passed out, and there was no pain. I slowly turned my head to watch the nurse. I could feel things swirling in my gut, but there was no pain. I was releaved. Maybe I had passed over the boundary of pain, but I didn't think that was it. The nurses words finally came into focus.

"I was suprised when that girl thrust that sword through your stomach. Most of the time the recruits don't have the power or the skill to shove a sword through someone, and even if they do, they know the consequences, so they don't do it. She was the first in 13 years to have been discharged because of her actions during the trainee battle. You were lucky though, the trainee who was discharged before actually killed the person he attacked." There was an awkward pause. "I thought that you were going to be a gonner too, but your friend asured me that you would make it through." I smiled. The nurse didn't notice.

I was tired of being quiet. "I guess she was right," I said. The nurse looked surprised.

"Wow. I wasn't expecting you to say anything for a while." I laughed, or more like choked.

"Pain can be ignored, pushed away, all though it's not always the best to do."

The nurse nodded along. "Wise words," she said, then took her hands off of my stomach and left without saying anything.

I sat back for a moment confused, then decided to get moving. The nurse had healed most of the wound, it was now just a faint scar. That probably meant it was safe to move. I started to move, and began to look for the barrier that was blocking the pain. I found it, and bit by bit I started to feel pains again as I whacked at the solid wall.

I made it to the window, it was still dark out, but I could see the battle feild from here. The stands were emptying, and the whole ground was covered by the rocky mountains of the Grianan territory. I smiled. We had won!

Then reality caught up to me. Crap! How am I going to get back into my training group? I don't know our scedule and I don't know were are dorms are. Matter of fact, I don't even know were I am.

I looked out the window again, and I looked down. I spilled my very sensitive stomach, then tried to find any landmarks that looked familiar. I was about the give up on the search when finally, I saw a twisted tree in the forrest a little while off. I remember glancing around the Grianan tower to get a glimpse of the tree. Sam had mentioned that we should try to stay away from that area, but I didn't remember his explanation. That only lead to one thing, I was in the Grianan tower, but I didn't know anything besides that.

looked up. There was nothing to see. I leaned forward and just barely glimsed a tower to my left. I pressed my face against the glass.

I could only see the side of the tower, but I could still see the bottom, and just barely the top. I balked. The hospital was just under the dining area's combined entrance, and the ground below was 10 maybe 20 floors below me. The towers were bigger than I had originally thought.

I turned away from the window and studied the room again. There were only two actual corners. From the curve of the outside wall, I knew that the hospital wing took up about half of this level of the tower. All the walls were white and all the beds had their own little curtain that could be pulled all the way around to give a person privacy, but like all hospitals. There is no such thing as privacy here. Over half of the beds were filled. Some with statues, others with animals. The hospital was noisy, and the whole area was filled with chaos. Nurses in white rushed around from patient to patient. I watched a girl in a dress with the bottom half white and the upper half grey follow a completely white dressed man. The girl must have been a trainee, as when I looked closer I found several other people dressed just like her following and do as their mentors did when the mentor handed over the reins.