Her body aches in ways that are beyond familiar the entire time that they're moving. She tries to shift in Noelle's grasp but is met with a shooting pain going through her entire right side, her shoulder blade and her chest and down her arm as well. It's all the reminder she needs that she should just stay still and not irritate anything until all the motion has stopped, and that's basically what she does. She's breathing, and it's getting less shallow (though not too deep because that hurts too but she thinks it hurts in the same way?), but otherwise she's basically motionless while Noelle carries her to safety.
Once she's set down on the ground, she takes a couple tiny, tentative steps before looking above and in front of her, to Noelle proper. And she says, "I am," but she's speaking almost a little calmly about it. She carefully, slowly lifts her right arm up, bending her elbow so it crooks over her head, and wraps her left hand around her right wrist. And she pulls, and there's the thunk of bone settling back into socket, and she winces the whole time she's doing it.
And then she lowers her arms just as slowly, and it still hurts, but it's better than having been eaten by vines. So she breathes through the residual pain and tries to hide that the whole process had gotten a couple tears to fall. She blinks them away along with the reminder that she is still human and resolves to determine if she likes that or not later. "You saved my life, Noelle," she says instead of almost anything else. "Thank you. I... didn't want to die there."
cw: bone stuff
Once she's set down on the ground, she takes a couple tiny, tentative steps before looking above and in front of her, to Noelle proper. And she says, "I am," but she's speaking almost a little calmly about it. She carefully, slowly lifts her right arm up, bending her elbow so it crooks over her head, and wraps her left hand around her right wrist. And she pulls, and there's the thunk of bone settling back into socket, and she winces the whole time she's doing it.
And then she lowers her arms just as slowly, and it still hurts, but it's better than having been eaten by vines. So she breathes through the residual pain and tries to hide that the whole process had gotten a couple tears to fall. She blinks them away along with the reminder that she is still human and resolves to determine if she likes that or not later. "You saved my life, Noelle," she says instead of almost anything else. "Thank you. I... didn't want to die there."