[It's a neat trick, controlling the flame on four separate points and holding it at a temperature hot enough to cauterize but contained enough to only destroy the skin where it's most needed, and nothing more. It's almost neat enough to cover up the smell of burning flesh, but not quite.
Still, she remembers this rhythm. Fire first. Then the sutures. She's quick and efficient and pointedly not thinking about how Trevor is watching her stab a steel needle through their boyfriend's flesh and tie it shut over and over and over again.
But soon enough, it's done, and at least the leg is easier to do than his chest was, for a lot of reasons. Soon enough she drops the bloody implements and lets her arms hang at her sides, finally brought to the cusp of their real dilemma.]
The others should mend on their own, once he starts to heal again. They're not so deep and much less dangerous.
[She hesitates.]
Do you have any of that incense, that makes vampires docile?
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[It's a neat trick, controlling the flame on four separate points and holding it at a temperature hot enough to cauterize but contained enough to only destroy the skin where it's most needed, and nothing more. It's almost neat enough to cover up the smell of burning flesh, but not quite.
Still, she remembers this rhythm. Fire first. Then the sutures. She's quick and efficient and pointedly not thinking about how Trevor is watching her stab a steel needle through their boyfriend's flesh and tie it shut over and over and over again.
But soon enough, it's done, and at least the leg is easier to do than his chest was, for a lot of reasons. Soon enough she drops the bloody implements and lets her arms hang at her sides, finally brought to the cusp of their real dilemma.]
The others should mend on their own, once he starts to heal again. They're not so deep and much less dangerous.
[She hesitates.]
Do you have any of that incense, that makes vampires docile?