Rain beat a steady rhythm beside her, over her. The constant yet intermittent beat seemed at odds with the thunderous rush of her heart. Her heartbeat escalated, no longer keeping its own perfect time. It was the strangeness of those two sounds, coupled to create a strange cacophony, that brought her back to herself, if only for a moment.
"...will be all right." Her ears flicked briefly at those sounds, and she was aware of her body shifting. It was then that she became aware of the pain. Her lime green eyes shut tightly and her breath hissed out of her mouth. She choked on the collection of blood, saliva, and rain that had pooled in her throat. Gagging, she tried to bring her jaws together to cough and clear her air way. But that in itself was a struggle as a wave of nauseating pain penetrated her clouded mind.
She found herself unable to bring her lower jaw under control. It was offset, at a strange angle. Clarity came for an instant, as she gained enough of herself back to wonder what had happened, to feel a sense of urgency to know where she was. She blinked and whined as she tried to drag her left eye open. It was a labor to breath, and a Herculean task to open her unimpaired right eye. The world moved. It was ungainly, but fluid and jaunting. Her head lolled over his arm, but she could turn bit by microscopic bit to see.
"J-Jahh...Jehh..?" her voice was weak, a raspy, dry whisper as her mouth disobeyed her. She was unable to form the words. To complete the name, the question. Jefferson? But the sound of the rain, the unpleasant sensations in her shoulder and collar bone, and the pain that radiated from her every part of her body engulfed her again.