She continued to stare up. Sure, she could run, but she felt like the boulder wouldn't get to her from where she stood. Suddenly, a hawk cawed from above and just as RD saw what it was doing, it had dive-bombed the blue pegasus and was now clawing her, dodging every swat, until it finally retreated, as if now that she was bleeding like mad it's job was done. Then, an earsplitting cracking noise came from above. With a snap, the small root detached itself from the rock and it began to fall. Rainbow Dash ran, realizing she had walked straight into the path.... but the boulder was faster than her running, and she was soon painfully pinned to that spot by her wing, crushed underneath the weight of the boulder so much it poured blood like the cuts weren't enough. Tears began to well up, but she blinked them away with all her force and might. She was weak and dizzy, and she knew she had to do something or she would die. She looked about for something to use as a tool to free her, but all she saw was a unnaturally sharp rock in her reach. She grabbed it, but suddenly realized it would not even scratch the boulder, let alone lift it.... then she realized what she would have to do as she stared down at her bleeding wing. "Shit, I can't do crap about the boulder! Why are you so cruel, fate? Why do I have to cut off my wing?" But she did. It stung. The rock acted like a blade and it cut clean through the delicate flesh of her pegasus wing. But she was free. She let out the most wretched wail of pain she had ever yelled, tears stung the wounds around her eye in her tear's reach. She wanted to run to her home or the hospital and have civilized care, but she couldn't. She continued to wail until dusk, then she painfully and stiffly waked along to look for shelter. She found it in a cave nearby. Normally, Rarity would have dragged her along, saying caves were too dirty. But this was Rainbow Dash, and she bolted for the cave. As the day faded into the darkness of Luna's night, she cursed both of the princess's names. She swished her tail and was then asleep, the leaves from the bed she had made almost healed her leg and belly wounds. She dreamed of death, despair, and all things wrong.