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With a snort Remus shook his head, feeling a bit of blood trickle into his mouth. Yet as he looked down at Sprite, sadness was his only emotion. "They're gone, Sprite," he said soothingly, keeping his ground this time. "They're all gone. Look around and you'll see--only your friends are here. We won't hurt you."
Sprite's eyes jerked open. " Remus? " she asked recognition registering in her face " Are you ok? Did they hurt you? I saw that Cydestale hurt you.. I thought you were a goner. Why is your nose bleeding?"
"I'm--" he tried to say "fine", but somehow his ribs and cuts throbbed at the prospect. "--hurt, but on the mend," he shifted his weight slightly to reduce the pain in his ribs. "I may be short and, well, not a spring stallion anymore, but it takes more than a Clydesdale to do a lot of damage," he smiled. "As for the nosebleed--" he toyed for a moment with the prospect of telling her, but looking at her lying on the ground, somehow he couldn't do it. "It was a gift," he said, truthfully. "But how about you? You've been delirious for a while now, ever since those two-legs came."