Page 31 of Heart of the Hunted
Placing the bottle on the table , she closed her eyes and rolled her head to stretch the tense muscles in her neck and then did the same for her shoulders. The feeling in her feet was returning with a vengeance. Pain radiated from her toes and the balls of her feet, through her arches to her heels.
Bending down she gently scrubbed them clean, and then lifted them out of the water to dry them off. Before she pulled on a clean and dry pair of socks, she rubbed antiseptic cream into all the cuts and wrapped them in bandages.
Natalia bit her lip as the cream caused the open wounds to sting. She would rather put up with this slight pain than deal with an infection later on if she did nothing to prevent it now.
Pushing the bowl to one side when she was finished, Natalia then stood and made her way to the bedroom. After the last few days of getting little to no sleep at all, she was more than ready to get a good night’s sleep.
Settling for the first bed she came to. Natalia pulled out her blanket and pillow from her satchel, she laid them out on the bed before grabbing the pile of blankets that were folded neatly on the top bunk and doing the same with them.
Natalia didn't go anywhere without her blanket. It didn't matter that it was old and tatty because her mother had made it for her when she was little, so no matter what it looked like, she would always keep it.
She lifted the blankets to climb underneath them, then curled up on her side. Not long after her head hit the pillow, she was fast asleep.
