She noticed my wound and instantly transformed back to mother bear.

“I’m sorry.  Ash what happened?”  She asked in a soothing tone.

“I got hurt.”  I deadpanned, looking at the cut.  

Did it get worst?

“Here” she reached for my hand.  I pulled away and jumped back a foot or two.  I reacted as if she just offered to amputate. 

“What I said I was sorry” she tried to snatch my hand again.  I wasn’t having it.

“Noooo.  Your going to make it hurt!”  I whined through pouting lips.  She rolled her eyes at me.  Kyla cleans a cut like a piece of meat, trust me you’d do the same.

“Big Baby!” She grumbled.  Kyla made a more successful attempt at grabbing my hand and studied the slice.  Moving it in different positions, as if a better view would show her something new.

There was more whining and sisterly banter as she cleaned my cut.  It stung like a bitch but would be worst if it got infected.  She freaking dumped a good amount of hydrogen peroxide straight on the wound, then rubbed the hell out of it.  I prayed she wouldn’t make the cut larger.  We repeated the process till the gash didn’t fizz when it came in contact with the peroxide.  By that time my hand was numb.  She wrapped it firmly in a gauze bandage.  Making sure it would stay on and keep the gash clean

I got up and decided that I needed to change my clothes.  They were dirty and sticking to my skin.  I was struggling to unbutton my jeans.

“Kyla could you give the dog whatever water is left in that bottle?”  She nodded and stood up.  

He smiled when he saw the water.  She poured it into an empty plastic container and he lapped it up gratefully.  He was so happy his entire rear end wiggled.  I thought his tail was going to fly off.  Kyla and I laughed.  She was starting to fall in love with this mutt too.

I finally got undressed and took out a new pair of clean clothes, from my duffle bag.  I stuffed the dirty ones into a separate bag.  I chose simple black beater and blue skinny jeans.  I ran a brush through my hair a few times, then put it up into a pony tail.