This isn’t a situation that would arise in a mundane setting, but I’m recalling that in Ladyhawke the healer had to wait until sundown to treat Lady Isabeau’s arrow wound: in human form, the wound would occupy far less of her total mass.
(Although there’s at least one instance of a red-tailed hawk(1), the species used in the movie, surviving for a month in the wild with an embedded arrow before he was captured, treated, and released; that said, he did have the benefit of 2016 U.S. veterinary medicine.
(1) That An Evil Cleric Did It only partially explains what a redtail was doing in Fairytale Medieval France; how the Bishop of Aquila had access to a New World bird as a curse template is a whole ‘nother headscratcher.
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Date: 2023-08-13 08:52 pm (UTC)(Although there’s at least one instance of a red-tailed hawk(1), the species used in the movie, surviving for a month in the wild with an embedded arrow before he was captured, treated, and released; that said, he did have the benefit of 2016 U.S. veterinary medicine.
https://www.wsls.com/news/2016/04/07/hawk-shot-by-arrow-seen-flying-in-pennsylvania/
https://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/04/11/hawk-mend-after-arrow-removed-its-chest/82913350/
https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2016/04/13/injured-hawk-arrow-release-game-commission/82986670/)
(1) That An Evil Cleric Did It only partially explains what a redtail was doing in Fairytale Medieval France; how the Bishop of Aquila had access to a New World bird as a curse template is a whole ‘nother headscratcher.