sol14 survive

With a gasp, Emma woke up to excruciating pain. Everything was still dark, but Emma's soul gem decoys lent just enough light to see.

Emma felt around her chest. There was a large sliver of alloy wedged through her left breast, slicing apart her lung and part of the veins there. Apparently, fugue was an excellent thing. Using magic, she numbed the region, then pulled the sliver out. It still managed to hurt like a bitch.

Still, at least her body was repairing itself. Emma pulled a few more pieces of metal from her body before she took a moment to figure out where she was.

…It seemed that the IFV had flipped at some very high speed. There was a shattered mess where the front suspension had been, along with part of the main hatch, then a great hole near the top of the bulkhead.

Emma would have laughed if she didn't feel like she was about to throw up her other lung. Apparently they'd been hit with three AT Missiles. She was lucky to be alive.

Then again, as she felt her head, there was rather a lot of blood. Her TacComp wasn't working properly either. It was entirely possible that she'd actually died.

…Now that was a trip. Emma really did laugh this time, before coughing and hacking up bloody chunks of flesh. Ugh. From the heaviness of her limbs, it did feel like things weren't working very well. She wasn't sure if this meant that she'd actually died and the limbs had started to go necrotic, or if she'd just hit her head really, really hard.

(Solemnis, Chapter 14)