A محفوظ place is a good place … ?
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It didn't took long until they arrived at another clearing. It was surrounded سے طرف کی trees that stood extra tightly together; it nearly seemed like they were 'protecting' the clearing. Burt had some problems to squeeze through them to get to an old oak, which stood at the edge of the clearing. Strangely, a light glowed inside the tree. As they came closer, Private discovered that the oak had a big hole in two and a half meters height.
Burt reached his تنے, ٹرنک up to it and somebody that Private couldn't see, took Rico's motionless body inside.
"Burt" کہا Marlene as she and Private reached the oak's foot. She nearly needed to shout – so loud was the rushing of the trees around them. "Might آپ help Private up, too? But carefully! He's injured."
Burt dropped Private at the edge of the hole and he slid inside and looked up. It was surprisingly quite roomy. Marlene stepped in behind him.
"And?" she asked "How do آپ find it?"
"Impressing."
Marlene lead him over to the others. The lemurs Maurice and Mort were sitting اگلے to their sleeping king. Maurice got up, greeted Private quietly and inspected his wounds.
"Come over here" he کہا and Private followed him to a bench, which was hacked into the oaks wood, like all things in here seemed to be: the میز, جدول in the middle, the beds, covered with blankets and old newspapers.
Private looked over to the chimpanzees Mason and Phil who had bend over Rico, who laid unconscious on one of the beds.
"Will he…?" Private asked and caught Marlene's look.
"I'm sorry" he mumbled and lowered his head. "For… آپ know…"
"It's okay, Private" Marlene answered. "You changed your mind so just forget about it. آپ can tell him later your apologize…"
Maurice didn't know what they were talking about.
"May I?" he asked and pointed at Private's wings.
As he wrapped off the blood soaked bandages around them, Marlene let out a little scream یا terror and stepped back. The chimpanzees looked up.
"What's wrong?" Mason asked and came over.
He took Maurice's place, who looked nearly as terrified as Marlene, and inspected Private's flippers.
"Private, what happened to you?" he asked and took one of them very carefully with his hands.
"I was chained" was everything, Private retorted.
Mason inspected the bloody hole through his wing closer.
"That's bad" he mumbled, "that's really bad."
"Phil!" he yelled and the other ape looked up from the other bed.
"I could need your help here."
Phil made some hand signs.
"Fine, then in a minute... Do آپ have any other injuries, Private?" he asked and glanced at the plasters on his side, which were already flaking off.
Private lay on one side and Mason removed the rest of the blood soaked patches.
Private suddenly noticed how exhausted and tired he actually was…
Mason expected the wound he had from Skipper's sword as he had lost control over his body. Then he went back and started whispering to Phil who answered with gestures, nobody of them could interpret. Marlene sat beside Private on the بستر and smiled at him. Private tried to smile back, but somehow, he couldn't. In the moment, everything he wanted, was to sleep to forget the pain. And not just the pain of his wounds…
Mason gave Marlene and Maurice some absorbent cotton and کہا they should use it to stop the wounds from bleeding. Private remembered that they hadn't bled when they had started to flee from Skipper, but Mason told him, the effort of running had opened them again. And as he learned from Marlene that Private had even helped to drag Rico, he said, it was strange that Private had still been on his feet when they had reached the oak.
Private didn't already really listen to the last part. He was slowly slipping away into a mixture of unconsciousness and sleep, but still, he wasn't senseless. The pain didn't let him fall asleep and he cursed it for that…
Mason knew what to do with Private, but that needed time and they couldn't care for two patients at the same time: Rico's wound was deeper than Private's and his condition was much مزید critical so they had to look after him first. Mason and Phil did their best to clean and stitch up the wound, and in the end they کہا that Rico would be fine.
The light was slowly vanishing, voices were almost just a senseless mumbling in the background. Private looked up as Mason bend down to him with a syringe in his hand. He talked to him, but Private didn't understand a word of it. He just nodded. Then he felt a pain in his side, but it was way not as bad as the pain of his wounds. The room began to blur and went eventually black.
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King Julien awoke when the chimpanzees had just finished their operation. He looked up and discovered the white feathers of a bird on the opposite bed.
He jumped up.
"Ah! Maurice! Penguin!"
He grabbed his right-hand-man and shook him. Then he pushed Maurice protectively in front of him and moved towards the sleeping Private.
"Quick! Look which پینگوئن, پیںگان it is!" he کہا frightened.
"It's okay, your majesty" Maurice said, slightly bored. "This one is one of the benign sort…"
"And the other one?" Julien asked who had just discovered the سیکنڈ bird on the اگلے bed.
Maurice looked at Rico. He hesitated.
"That one, too."
Julien relaxed. "Puh, because if it were you-do-know-who, the game would being over!"
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While the penguins were still in narcosis, the rest of the group had dinner. It wasn't much they had to eat, but it was enough to make everyone replete. As yet…
Mason looked over to Private, who slightly moved in his sleep.
"I really wonder what happened to him" he کہا out of a sudden.
The others looked up.
"To who?" Marlene asked.
"Private. And I'm not talking about his flippers. Affirmative, it was some kind of rod shot through them."
Everyone who had seen it – all except for King Julien and the little Mort – shivered.
"No, I mean, he behaves odd. Didn't آپ notice that?" Mason asked Marlene.
"I did" she answered and lowered her head. "Well, I… آپ all know where I found him…"
Now, everyone looked down. They were all still shocked and sad about the loss of Kowalski… even Julien, although it was mostly shock than sadness at him…
"But I think, he could have gone through even مزید than that… that it's even worse, آپ know" Mason کہا "and I'd like to find out…"
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When Private opened his eyes, it needed a moment until he realized that he was surrounded.
"How you're feeling?" Marlene asked. Private wasn't really able to assess that because his body felt quite numb, and so he simply nodded.
"Private, if it's okay for you" Marlene began "we'd like to-"
"Tell us! Tell us!" Julien interrupted her excitedly "Tell us every little detail that has happened, with all the excitement and the bad پینگوئن, پیںگان with the glowy eyes!"
Private stared at him in shock سے طرف کی this sudden assault.
"What Julien meant, was:" Marlene tried it again after a moment of silence and looked angrily at the lemur. "Everyone of us has gone through something different since this all broke out. And we'd like to now what happened to آپ … and Rico." Almost, she had کہا 'Kowalski'…
"What…what has happened?" Private looked at his flippers. They were wrapped in fresh and clean bandages and didn't hurt at all any مزید thanks to the painkillers he had been دیا سے طرف کی the chimpanzees. "Um…"
Silence. Private could feel the looks of the others on him and he felt uncomfortable. He asked himself where he should begin. But as he thought back, he saw himself lying in the HQ again, Skipper, standing in front of his face, the mischievous grin on his face, the pain in his side…
Julien became impatient.
"Now come on!" he کہا rudely "start the telling!"
Private still hesitated. The pictures in his head flickered up and hurt his heart. He just couldn't recall it.
But Julien stuck to his guts. "What is the waiting for? Tell the story!"
"I…" Private felt how his دل started to beat faster. He felt trapped. They all stood in front of him and he just couldn't escape their stinging looks.
"I…" He couldn't. He just couldn't.
"Private, what did Skipper to you?" Marlene asked. "How came it that آپ got this injury on your wings?"
'Will ya obey!' Skipper shouted in his head. The sting. The sting in his back. He sank down. Skipper stepped in front of him. Private closed his eyes but that only made things worse; the pictures became even clearer.
"Private?" Marlene asked a little worried.
"Story! Story!" Julien yelled eagerly and angry. "Tell us the story!"
Private crouched together; his chest rose and fell quickly. The dark room. The blood on the walls. The blood on the floor, soaking his feathers. His own blood. Skipper's eyes. His evil eyes. They had been black, he knew it now…
"Private" Mason began now, too.
But suddenly, a loud and deep snarl came from behind them and they span around. Rico hadn't opened his eyes. He still lay on his بستر like he was sleeping. But as they looked at him, he let out another deep growl that کہا unambiguously: "Leave him alone!"
As they looked back at Private, they saw that he had slipped deep under his blanket and the fabric twitched slightly from sobs.
A little ashamed, they left his bed.
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Marlene entered the oak-room again later, while all others were still outside. They had gone out to talk to the elephant, now, that the storm had gone over night, and the sun was shining warmly.
As she looked up, she discovered that Rico wasn't lying in his bed, but standing at Private's bed. She could see, that it caused him a lot of effort and also pain. Nevertheless, Rico had softly laid his flippers on the blanket. Private's face was buried in his تکیا and he seemed to cry.
Rico noticed Marlene and looked up. He saw her standing beside the entrance, paralyzed, looking at them with a mixture of surprise and shock.
Rico moaned suddenly and he just managed to lean against his cot before his legs went weak. Marlene hurried over and helped him on his بستر again. Rico closed his eyes and breathed deeply a few times to gain control over the pain.
Marlene looked at Private. He had turned his head from his pillow; the blanket pulled up to his closed eyes, and had fallen asleep.
"What is with him?" she asked quietly and quite worried.
But Rico just looked at her and shook his head.
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It didn't took long until they arrived at another clearing. It was surrounded سے طرف کی trees that stood extra tightly together; it nearly seemed like they were 'protecting' the clearing. Burt had some problems to squeeze through them to get to an old oak, which stood at the edge of the clearing. Strangely, a light glowed inside the tree. As they came closer, Private discovered that the oak had a big hole in two and a half meters height.
Burt reached his تنے, ٹرنک up to it and somebody that Private couldn't see, took Rico's motionless body inside.
"Burt" کہا Marlene as she and Private reached the oak's foot. She nearly needed to shout – so loud was the rushing of the trees around them. "Might آپ help Private up, too? But carefully! He's injured."
Burt dropped Private at the edge of the hole and he slid inside and looked up. It was surprisingly quite roomy. Marlene stepped in behind him.
"And?" she asked "How do آپ find it?"
"Impressing."
Marlene lead him over to the others. The lemurs Maurice and Mort were sitting اگلے to their sleeping king. Maurice got up, greeted Private quietly and inspected his wounds.
"Come over here" he کہا and Private followed him to a bench, which was hacked into the oaks wood, like all things in here seemed to be: the میز, جدول in the middle, the beds, covered with blankets and old newspapers.
Private looked over to the chimpanzees Mason and Phil who had bend over Rico, who laid unconscious on one of the beds.
"Will he…?" Private asked and caught Marlene's look.
"I'm sorry" he mumbled and lowered his head. "For… آپ know…"
"It's okay, Private" Marlene answered. "You changed your mind so just forget about it. آپ can tell him later your apologize…"
Maurice didn't know what they were talking about.
"May I?" he asked and pointed at Private's wings.
As he wrapped off the blood soaked bandages around them, Marlene let out a little scream یا terror and stepped back. The chimpanzees looked up.
"What's wrong?" Mason asked and came over.
He took Maurice's place, who looked nearly as terrified as Marlene, and inspected Private's flippers.
"Private, what happened to you?" he asked and took one of them very carefully with his hands.
"I was chained" was everything, Private retorted.
Mason inspected the bloody hole through his wing closer.
"That's bad" he mumbled, "that's really bad."
"Phil!" he yelled and the other ape looked up from the other bed.
"I could need your help here."
Phil made some hand signs.
"Fine, then in a minute... Do آپ have any other injuries, Private?" he asked and glanced at the plasters on his side, which were already flaking off.
Private lay on one side and Mason removed the rest of the blood soaked patches.
Private suddenly noticed how exhausted and tired he actually was…
Mason expected the wound he had from Skipper's sword as he had lost control over his body. Then he went back and started whispering to Phil who answered with gestures, nobody of them could interpret. Marlene sat beside Private on the بستر and smiled at him. Private tried to smile back, but somehow, he couldn't. In the moment, everything he wanted, was to sleep to forget the pain. And not just the pain of his wounds…
Mason gave Marlene and Maurice some absorbent cotton and کہا they should use it to stop the wounds from bleeding. Private remembered that they hadn't bled when they had started to flee from Skipper, but Mason told him, the effort of running had opened them again. And as he learned from Marlene that Private had even helped to drag Rico, he said, it was strange that Private had still been on his feet when they had reached the oak.
Private didn't already really listen to the last part. He was slowly slipping away into a mixture of unconsciousness and sleep, but still, he wasn't senseless. The pain didn't let him fall asleep and he cursed it for that…
Mason knew what to do with Private, but that needed time and they couldn't care for two patients at the same time: Rico's wound was deeper than Private's and his condition was much مزید critical so they had to look after him first. Mason and Phil did their best to clean and stitch up the wound, and in the end they کہا that Rico would be fine.
The light was slowly vanishing, voices were almost just a senseless mumbling in the background. Private looked up as Mason bend down to him with a syringe in his hand. He talked to him, but Private didn't understand a word of it. He just nodded. Then he felt a pain in his side, but it was way not as bad as the pain of his wounds. The room began to blur and went eventually black.
°.
King Julien awoke when the chimpanzees had just finished their operation. He looked up and discovered the white feathers of a bird on the opposite bed.
He jumped up.
"Ah! Maurice! Penguin!"
He grabbed his right-hand-man and shook him. Then he pushed Maurice protectively in front of him and moved towards the sleeping Private.
"Quick! Look which پینگوئن, پیںگان it is!" he کہا frightened.
"It's okay, your majesty" Maurice said, slightly bored. "This one is one of the benign sort…"
"And the other one?" Julien asked who had just discovered the سیکنڈ bird on the اگلے bed.
Maurice looked at Rico. He hesitated.
"That one, too."
Julien relaxed. "Puh, because if it were you-do-know-who, the game would being over!"
°.
While the penguins were still in narcosis, the rest of the group had dinner. It wasn't much they had to eat, but it was enough to make everyone replete. As yet…
Mason looked over to Private, who slightly moved in his sleep.
"I really wonder what happened to him" he کہا out of a sudden.
The others looked up.
"To who?" Marlene asked.
"Private. And I'm not talking about his flippers. Affirmative, it was some kind of rod shot through them."
Everyone who had seen it – all except for King Julien and the little Mort – shivered.
"No, I mean, he behaves odd. Didn't آپ notice that?" Mason asked Marlene.
"I did" she answered and lowered her head. "Well, I… آپ all know where I found him…"
Now, everyone looked down. They were all still shocked and sad about the loss of Kowalski… even Julien, although it was mostly shock than sadness at him…
"But I think, he could have gone through even مزید than that… that it's even worse, آپ know" Mason کہا "and I'd like to find out…"
°.
When Private opened his eyes, it needed a moment until he realized that he was surrounded.
"How you're feeling?" Marlene asked. Private wasn't really able to assess that because his body felt quite numb, and so he simply nodded.
"Private, if it's okay for you" Marlene began "we'd like to-"
"Tell us! Tell us!" Julien interrupted her excitedly "Tell us every little detail that has happened, with all the excitement and the bad پینگوئن, پیںگان with the glowy eyes!"
Private stared at him in shock سے طرف کی this sudden assault.
"What Julien meant, was:" Marlene tried it again after a moment of silence and looked angrily at the lemur. "Everyone of us has gone through something different since this all broke out. And we'd like to now what happened to آپ … and Rico." Almost, she had کہا 'Kowalski'…
"What…what has happened?" Private looked at his flippers. They were wrapped in fresh and clean bandages and didn't hurt at all any مزید thanks to the painkillers he had been دیا سے طرف کی the chimpanzees. "Um…"
Silence. Private could feel the looks of the others on him and he felt uncomfortable. He asked himself where he should begin. But as he thought back, he saw himself lying in the HQ again, Skipper, standing in front of his face, the mischievous grin on his face, the pain in his side…
Julien became impatient.
"Now come on!" he کہا rudely "start the telling!"
Private still hesitated. The pictures in his head flickered up and hurt his heart. He just couldn't recall it.
But Julien stuck to his guts. "What is the waiting for? Tell the story!"
"I…" Private felt how his دل started to beat faster. He felt trapped. They all stood in front of him and he just couldn't escape their stinging looks.
"I…" He couldn't. He just couldn't.
"Private, what did Skipper to you?" Marlene asked. "How came it that آپ got this injury on your wings?"
'Will ya obey!' Skipper shouted in his head. The sting. The sting in his back. He sank down. Skipper stepped in front of him. Private closed his eyes but that only made things worse; the pictures became even clearer.
"Private?" Marlene asked a little worried.
"Story! Story!" Julien yelled eagerly and angry. "Tell us the story!"
Private crouched together; his chest rose and fell quickly. The dark room. The blood on the walls. The blood on the floor, soaking his feathers. His own blood. Skipper's eyes. His evil eyes. They had been black, he knew it now…
"Private" Mason began now, too.
But suddenly, a loud and deep snarl came from behind them and they span around. Rico hadn't opened his eyes. He still lay on his بستر like he was sleeping. But as they looked at him, he let out another deep growl that کہا unambiguously: "Leave him alone!"
As they looked back at Private, they saw that he had slipped deep under his blanket and the fabric twitched slightly from sobs.
A little ashamed, they left his bed.
°.
Marlene entered the oak-room again later, while all others were still outside. They had gone out to talk to the elephant, now, that the storm had gone over night, and the sun was shining warmly.
As she looked up, she discovered that Rico wasn't lying in his bed, but standing at Private's bed. She could see, that it caused him a lot of effort and also pain. Nevertheless, Rico had softly laid his flippers on the blanket. Private's face was buried in his تکیا and he seemed to cry.
Rico noticed Marlene and looked up. He saw her standing beside the entrance, paralyzed, looking at them with a mixture of surprise and shock.
Rico moaned suddenly and he just managed to lean against his cot before his legs went weak. Marlene hurried over and helped him on his بستر again. Rico closed his eyes and breathed deeply a few times to gain control over the pain.
Marlene looked at Private. He had turned his head from his pillow; the blanket pulled up to his closed eyes, and had fallen asleep.
"What is with him?" she asked quietly and quite worried.
But Rico just looked at her and shook his head.
