Ergo, the Ogre

Welcome to the daily Three Things Challenge.
Use your imagination and creativity using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family friendly.

Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC, and you can add Di’s logo if you wish.

Looking forward to reading your responses.

Your three words today are:
BLOOD
SEEP
FLOW

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It was not a stormy night, but it was getting dark. The blood moon was beginning to rise, peeking over the horizon like a shy child. A breeze, warm and gentle, smelled vaguely of musk and clay.

Veronica loved twilight in the Painted Desert. It was her favorite place to spend time.

Veronica was feeling sleepy and made the mistake only once of waiting too long. Setting up camp in the dark is unnecessarily stressful. She set up her tent and unrolled her sleeping bag and crawled in.

She was just about to fall asleep when she heard her name being called in the distance.

I must be dreaming. Nobody is here.

“Veronica? Ms. Ellis?” a quiet voice repeated. “Can you hear me? Veronica?”

Suddenly, Veronica became aware of an antiseptic odor as someone was poking at her shoulder. She struggled to open her eyes. Through the blur of sleep and whatever drug was in her system, she looked at her arm. There was a needle attached, and bright red (blood?) was seeping through a gauze bandage.

“Veronica?” the voice repeated. “Do you know where you are?”

Veronica tried but couldn’t speak. Too much of an effort. She looked up and saw a fuzzy woman in white, cradling a flow chart of some sort.

“You were in an accident,” the nurse said. “What do you remember?”

I want to go back to the desert… Please, just let me go.