Masks 2

Esen looks down the spear and chokes on her blood. Is this how her life will end? Is this it? The world around her grows distant with the pain and blood loss. She feels Finn pulling off of the spear as if her nerves were covered in molasses, and collapses to the ground, the other woman having been the only thing keeping her upright. She stares out at a dimming battle-scene and tries to breathe, to keep breathing, to keep herself alive. She barely moves, any twitch sending the pain of impalement through her again, no less painful than the first time.

Esen doesn't notice Zil at first, but finally something tips her off to the movement and she looks up. She knows that pulling off of the spear is a bad idea, but when she sees that Zil's trying to heal them she grunts and tries to snap the spear ends off with a tendril slice. That'll make it much easier to get out.