[ Then he can splatter as much soup as he likes - that amused quirk of her lips suggests as much. Nothing as mundane as talking about shirts and she too finds it easier to let that be a distraction, for a moment at least.
A distraction from the compulsive reaction she has to what he says next, gently squeezing his real hand with her own, fingers lightly twined with his, just for a moment... until she loosens her hold again.
It's been a while - does he mean a while since someone put a bullet in him? Burned him? Slashed him? And god knows whatever else by the looks of him... She doesn't like to think on that too much, the amount of times he must have been hurt badly enough to cause such permanent marks of damage over the course of more than century and a half. As for "not really", that answer of his does nothing to assuage her concerns that more than one of those wounds still cause him pain. ]
...If anything like that ever happens to you here, don't be foolish. Come to me. I can heal you before it becomes a problem.
[ A problem... Another scar to add to the patchwork, more pain. One less wouldn't make much of a difference, not in the grand scheme of things and not to him. But it's important to her, important that he knows she wants to do that for him. ]
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[ Then he can splatter as much soup as he likes - that amused quirk of her lips suggests as much. Nothing as mundane as talking about shirts and she too finds it easier to let that be a distraction, for a moment at least.
A distraction from the compulsive reaction she has to what he says next, gently squeezing his real hand with her own, fingers lightly twined with his, just for a moment... until she loosens her hold again.
It's been a while - does he mean a while since someone put a bullet in him? Burned him? Slashed him? And god knows whatever else by the looks of him... She doesn't like to think on that too much, the amount of times he must have been hurt badly enough to cause such permanent marks of damage over the course of more than century and a half. As for "not really", that answer of his does nothing to assuage her concerns that more than one of those wounds still cause him pain. ]
...If anything like that ever happens to you here, don't be foolish. Come to me. I can heal you before it becomes a problem.
[ A problem... Another scar to add to the patchwork, more pain. One less wouldn't make much of a difference, not in the grand scheme of things and not to him. But it's important to her, important that he knows she wants to do that for him. ]