[ficlet] Escaflowne - "He Did Not Drop"

Title: He Did Not Drop
Fandom: Escaflowne
Genre: AU, drama, general?
Characters: Folken, Eries.
Rating: PG-13, for implied blood and injury.
Word count: 327
Summary: Based on a tumblr prompt: "[FolkenxEries] She was the last person he had expected and yet, once the initial shock had worn off, he felt immensely relieved that she was the first to find him alive." (The idea was that someone sent you a pairing and one sentence, and then you wrote the next five only I went way over that, oops.)

( ''Oh, gods,'' she said, her normally placid features overcome with alarm. )