FI-Meet Stranger
From Create Your Own Story
Quickly, you bend down and help the stranger to his feet. He drapes an arm across your shoulders and leans on you heavily as the two of you stumble away from the rising tide into the relative safety and shelter of the palm trees at the edge of the beach. He leans back against the tree while you examine his wounds. It seems the blood in his beard is from a shallow scratch that is barely visible through the dark fibers. It should heal quickly on its own. The more serious injury is his lacerated side.
"Coral reef," the sailor says, answering the question that is already rising to your lips. "Scraped my side pretty good comin' in." He grits his teeth in pain and clutches his side as if by sheer force of will he could keep the blood from flowing out of him like water from a cracked urn.
What should you do? What can you do? You don't have experience treating injuries like this. You don't have any poultices or bandages and this man doesn't have much time. Now that you've saved him from the incoming tide you can't just let him bleed to death. There might be a village deeper in the jungle and you might be able to find help, but do you dare try to drag along the injured man through dangerous and unfamiliar territory?
Do you:
