Phoenix Maplewood jailed for frenzied killing of her aunt

She tried to summon strength in her legs to stand, but her whole body seemed to have turned to jello following her injury. Every attempt to move sent searing pain through the spot where her tail had been, and her hind legs buckled every time. All she was really doing was causing more damage in trying; the wound on her leg flowed freely each time she tried to support her weight on it, and soon enough her fur was matted with blood all the way down to her foot.

By now, the bear had moved deeper into the woods and Nochtli and Citali had drawn near. Reek was there too. When the hell had he got there, she asked herself, but she felt a little too dizzy and shocked to try to think through that. Her gaze slowly crawled to Nochtli and at last she noticed that the female's ear was shorter than it ought to have been. "Your ear," she mumbled around a tongue that felt five sizes too big. She blinked a few times, then turned her head sluggishly back to Reek.

All sluggishness left when Citali began to patch up her injuries. Each touch wracked her with pain and it was all she could do not to threaten the healer with her teeth, though guilt squeezed her chest every time her lips found themselves wrinkling up. She would've thumped her tail agitatedly if she'd had it. No. Don't think about that, she told herself as panic began to well up in her chest.

Too late. Her breath hitched and then began to come quicker, shallower, as her frightened eyes began searching the forest floor for the bright red fur of her tail, but it wasn't there. Was it still attached, just mangled? She tried to crane her head to see, but couldn't turn it far enough. So she settled back and let the healers take care of her, but it all passed in a haze, including the slow and painful walk home, after which she immediately passed out.

I'm gonna wrap this one up. :)