***CONTENT WARNING: LANGUAGE AND SLIGHT GORE***
"Skye?! Can you hear me?! Come on, love! Say something to me!" Tidas screamed as he held his unconscious wife in his arms.
Zazzy was hovering above him, listening for her mother's heartbeat. It was pounding furiously, which was both good and bad. She was alive, but if her heart maintained such a rapid pace for too long: it could stop.
She couldn't remember the term for it, but Tidas figured that it was most likely cardiac arrest. Skye had been teaching Zazzy about the biology of different species, in small doses. It was hard to make a solid lesson plan with Highlanders begging to play with her at all hours of the day, but she knew enough to recognize what was happening.
As Zazzy watched Skye's face contort with what looked to be fear, she and Tidas kept calling out to her..
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