" WITH CNÁN’S HELP, Raphael dressed the knife wound on Haakon’s hip. Raphael moved stiffly, and Haakon eventually saw why. A tiny stub of a broken arrow protruded from Raphael’s back. When Raphael finished with Haakon, Cnán said something about the arrow. "

― Neal Stephenson , The Mongoliad: Book Three (Foreworld, #3)