So Jacob went running off to find Oliver's group and soon the lot of them were heading back to where Martha lay.
By this time Caroline had joined Stewart and the look of despair the two gave to Jacob
told him all he needed to know.
Martha was dead.
However Dr Appolonius,normally all braying ass,was all business now and asked
Stewart and Caroline when Martha's heart had stopped beating.
Two minutes before they'd arrived.
So the doctor told Jacob to start massaging his patients chest,and told him to do so on the 10 count
and instructed Caroline to keep counting to ten.
Then he frantically looked about ,saw a water bottle and pulled out a pouch of
"dried powdered blood" and poured in the water,shook it vigorously and attached a tube to the "insta blood
and inserted the other end of the tube,complete with snake fang tip,into one
of Martha's veins.
and told Stewart to hold the insta blood bottle
As Jacob massaged Martha's stilled heart he realized the basilisk was wearing some kind of spectacles over her
reptillian eyes,so all that appeared was a tiny petrifying pin prick of basilisk gaze.
Oliver and the elven archer fumbled through their supplies and
found instruments,which
they gave to the basilisk.
She hissed for everyone to look away from her as she put on the medical device,then told them seconds later
it was safe again.
As Caroline,Stewart and Jacob watched the basilisk shone a narrow but powerful beam of her inner red light where the doctor
directed her to look and as pieces of Martha's neck turned to stone the doctor cut it carefully open
untill much of what lay within Martha's neck lay exposed to the air
" It prevents infection and blood loss" said the donkey doctor
as he carefully extracted the dangerous bolt and closed back together the damaged tissue
as best he could with
petrifying sutures.
Then he took a bottle and daubed a tissue here and there till Martha's neck was a mixture of repaired flesh,petrifuied flesh and blood pushing up and down in
Martha's veins and arteries.
Finally a weak heart beat restarted and the doctor and his companions packed up their medical gear
de-dangerized the basilisks gaze
and left.
There was nothing more they could do.
Martha would either heal or die.