Treating the Weyrleader

Writers: Avery
Date Posted: 16th June 2017
Series: The Ruin of River Bluff Weyr

Characters: Kadira, K'ran, A'kades, Jadirah, Naival
Description: Jadirah treats the Weyrleader and updates A'kades on his condition.
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 12, day 20 of Turn 8
Notes: Mentioned: K'lvin, Y'gel, K'sedel

K'ran

Jadirah was just finishing treating a lower caverns worker with a broken
arm when Rogueth popped from /between/ and collapsed on the ground.
Immediately the Master Healer ran for the dragon and his rider.

By the time she got there, K'lvin had pulled K'ran out of the straps and
was handing him to a response team. It was a pair of apprentices, one of
them her daughter, with a stretcher carried between them. Jadirah
immediately took charge of them. "Take him to the triage tent," she
commanded.

Once they got him to the triage tent, she made a quick visual assessment.
His arm hung limp over the side and his head lolled, meaning he certainly
wasn't fully cognizant. His dragon was still here, she'd seen, so he
couldn't be too far unconscious or in a coma.

"Redwort," she ordered. Kadira silently handed her a very small bowl of
it. Jadirah wet her hands in it.

His face was bloody, and her hands found the source as a cut on the top of
his head. "Water," she said, and then poured some of that onto the
bronzerider's hair. It washed away some of the blood so she could see the
source - a long cut on the top of the head that was deep and bleeding
profusely.

She poured a bit of the precious redwort on it to sterilize it, then
pointed at her daughter. "Apply bandages and hold until it slows the
bleeding, then wrap them down," she ordered.

While Kadira did that, he pulled open his eyelids to look and found them
rolled up. He was well and truly out. "We'll need to keep an eye on him
until he wakes up. See if it looks like he's knocked out, comatose, or if
he rises up into a natural sleep. We'll need to check for concussion when
he wakes."

"Yes ma'am," Naival said.

Jadirah kept looking for other problems. The torso was undamaged from the
front. When she checked his arms they were peppered with redness and
swelling, which she knew were the precursor signs of internal bleeds that
would turn into bruises. To her eye they looked formed from the rock
impacts, and the tiny cuts were presumably from shards and splinters. The
left arm was swollen and when she pressed on it, something didn't feel
right. "Break or fracture here. We'll stabilize it with splint and put it
in a sling when he awakes," she said.

Now that the head wound was treated, they rolled him over so she could
check his back. There was another cut on the back of his neck that was
sending a blood trail dripping down the back of his neck, which Naival
started cleaning up.

Kadira started cutting away his shirt to reveal the skin beneath. It was a
light shirt suitable for the outdoors, not a tough riding jacket, and that
meant he'd taken more damage than he might have if he'd been kitted out in
Fall gear. Like his arms, there were more areas of redness and warmth to
the touch. In one spot she felt a significant hardness and warmth and the
beginning of bruising.

"Something heavy hit here, a rock or the like," she told the apprentices.
"There's going to be significant bruising forming on his back. Since his
chest is undamaged, we're going to leave him off of his back. Otherwise
he'll be uncomfortable when he wakes up on the bruises."

She checked his rear and legs, but those were undamaged. It looked like
because he'd been seating on his dragon and leaning forward, most of his
body had been protected and only the back, arms, and head had taken
damage.

There was nothing else she could do for him now, and she figured the
leadership would want a report on his condition. "Kadira, stay with him
and come get me if he wakes up, if it looks like his breathing is slowing,
or something has gone wrong," she added.

She had barely made it a few steps out of the triage tent before she ran
nearly head-first into A'kades. The bronzerider put a hand on her shoulder
to steady her.

"Jadirah, you're alright?" he asked.

"Yes. The children are fine as well," she said, smiling at him. "Jadirel
is with the foster parents and Kadira's in the triage tent watching the
Weyrleader."

"Thank Faranth," he breathed. He'd been handling his direct charges since
the warning of the tsunami and had no time to go for his family, and had
been afraid that something might have happened and he didn't know. If his
children had been hurt, or if Jadirah had been - well, after Lenala - he
wouldn't be able to bear any more loss.

"How is the Weyrleader?" he asked.

"Bruising, a possible concussion, and a possibly broken arm. He's going to
live, if he wakes," she pronounced. "How's his dragon?"

A'kades reached out to Volaith mentally and his eyes got that far-away
unfocused look. After a minute, he snapped back to himself with the answer
for her. "Rogueth is completely unconscious but being treated by Y'gel and
a team. Volaith doesn't think he's injured enough to slip /between/."

Left unspoken by A'kades was the big 'unless'. Jadirah wasn't a rider, but
she was a weyrbred woman and she knew as well as A'kades did that now
their survival depended on each other. If Rogueth woke first and couldn't
reach his rider and /betweened/, the consequences for K'ran would be dire.
The shock of losing his dragon might mean K'ran might never wake up. Or it
might mean that he woke up a shell of himself and immediately asked for
the final mercy. But as long as the rider woke first, Rogueth shouldn't
go.

"Go treat your patients," he said to her. "I can tell Y'gel and K'lvin and
K'sedel what you've told me."

"Thank you," the Healer said. Then she added, "I know Volaith probably has
a dozen other things to check on but please have him keep an ear on
Rogueth.

"I will. We'll hold him here," A'kades said. They'd lost Lenala so they
didn't have a gold dragon available, but the combined weight of the senior
bronzes should be able to hold the Weyrleader's bronze and reassure him
until his rider woke. They wouldn't fail their other leader.

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