It was painful.
Pain was the only thing that kept Ishiki awake... considering how exhausted he was. He would have fainted by now, if not for his every breath feeling like knives scraping against his ribs.
But there was a downside to the pain as well... it turned his thoughts sluggish and made the world feel distant and unreal.
'The last thing I want is to die under a rock!' Ishiki thought with a strange detachment. After all that could very well happen considering the rocks falling outside.
His left forearm throbbed with his heartbeat. The chunk of stone was still embedded deep in the muscle and he could feel it shifting slightly with each small movement, grinding against bone that made his skin prick.
Blood had pooled beneath him, soaking into the wooden floorboards. He had lost a lot... too much, probably. His body felt cold and his fingers had started tingling.
