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Subject: Healing hands

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Aragorn

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Date Posted: 22:17:09 05/20/02 Mon

Deollyn's face was ashen and his breathing shallow.

Apart from the injured man and the king, the room was empty.

Breaking the fresh athelas leaves into a bowl of steaming water Aragorn waited for the crisp scent to fill the room before examing Deollyn's wounds.

The bolt still clung to his flesh. Carefully Aragorn removed it, trying to leave as little damage as possible, trying to leave the courtier as much blood as possible: he had lost so much already.

Desparately the king tried to stop the flow with a towel soaked in the athelas water but it soaked through again and again.

The hands of a king are the hands of a healer he reminded himself. I can do this.

In a hand that shook, he picked up the already threaded needle that lay beside the man's pale arm. Swiftly he sewed the wound shut and bandaged it cleanly.

"Wake Deollyn," he called softly but the courtier didn't stir. Aragorn's heart lurched. "Deollyn?" The man's face was motionless.

"Aryante!" the king yelled before falling into a chair.

Deollyn was dead.

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