Idle Hands

Once again Hunter on his back looking up, only this time he was staring at the cave ceiling. He was having to force his body to move at this point and it hurt real bad. Seeing as time was not on his side he needed to buy some time till Islana could find the ingredients. So he forced himself to inch over to his pack and fumbled through it for some a bit. He pulled out a few things with a look of disappointment since he could barely feel what he was touching from the poison. His nerves were going numb and making him more clumsy as he was trying to remain calm. Eventually he found the small pouch he was looking for and chuckled as he fumbled to open it with shaking hands. After a while he managed to remove a piece of charcoal from it and brought it to his mouth. He took a few breaths as he ate the charcoal bit by bit.

He was parched and the charcoal tasted horrible and bitter. However it would help neutralize some of the poison as he waited for Islana to get the ingredients for the cure. Mouth and lips were black now as he chocked down the charcoal. Then he fumbled to get water from his skin to wash down the charcoal. If not for his disciplined mind and body, he would have failed to eat charcoal and drink some water.

Then he calmed himself down and fumbled through his pack for the small notebook he had on poisons, antidotes and other important things. He marked the page Islana would need to make the cure with a dry leaf. Then put it in his hidden chest pocket. After that he fumbled to put his stuff back in his pack. as he struggled to keep moving. He needed to get the charcoal to move in his poisoned blood stream to help neutralize the poison. It was not a cure but it would help take the edge off most toxins. He then nibbled on some beef jerky and sipped water to help dilute the toxins in his system and flush it out later on.

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