Chapter 419: After the Storm
Kim knew her ankle had been healed. Yet that didn't keep her from wanting to keep her weight off of it. Even if it meant she spent the night laying in the mud of the bog.
The problem wasn't so much that it still hurt, but more from the fact that she wasn't used to major injuries like that going away so quickly. As she didn't know if it was broken or just sprained before it had been healed.
She understood that a broken ankle was better than a sprained one, even though she couldn't say exactly why. It was just something she'd once overheard either doctors or nurses talking about. Though, she was at least aware that injuries like that tended to make it easier to occur again, but she wasn't able to say if that would be the case with Heather having healed her ankle.
Kim was also thankful that Elin wasn't the one who'd healed her. Primarily because she didn't want Elin to see what had happened to her.
She fully understood why the others had been pulling on the rope, even though it could have been worse than it had turned out to be. Such as either having sliced her body in two, torn her foot off completely, or just kept her from being able to free her foot and make her drown. Each possibility was just as likely as the next to have occurred.
"Kim?" Kim heard Elin's quiet voice near her ear ask as each of them tried to get what sleep they could with the cold, freezing rain continuing to pelt them as it continued to come down on them hard.
"Yeah?" Kim asked, not really caring if she was disturbing another's attempt to fall asleep. She doubted anyone would be able to in the current conditions, but if they were able to, she seriously doubted her voice would wake them up at this point.
"I'm sorry," she said, her voice getting quieter to the point that Kim could barely hear her.
"Don't worry about it," Kim replied. "You did what we'd agreed on."