She dismounted but quickly fell to her knees on the snowy ground. Now that she was back on the ground, excitement quickly gave way to exhaustion. Her hips and hands felt tired and pained from clinging to the hard and pointy scales. Shireen weakly tried to stand up, but her legs simply didn't listen. She looked down and saw that reddening patches were slowly growing on her gown, which was torn in some places. Did she cut herself on the scales?