You are a vampire hunter, and you object because you think he is not being enough of a monster?
[It would be petty to poke him in the ankle, and she doesn't, but she thinks about it. His injury is at a point now where repeatedly packing it in ice will ultimately do him more harm than good, which means she has to be a little bit more creative in how she treats it, but that's no great issue. It would be better still if he would stop trying to walk around the house on it and surrender to a few weeks of sheer bed rest, but the likelihood of that happening is essentially nil, too.
She blows lightly on her fingertips, then braces the opposite side of his leg with her other hand while the first comes to stroke lightly down the length of his ankle. Her fingers are cold, but it's a dry, tempered chill instead of the strong sharpness of ice outright.]
You realize that you very likely owe your life to the fact that he is not his father, don't you?
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[It would be petty to poke him in the ankle, and she doesn't, but she thinks about it. His injury is at a point now where repeatedly packing it in ice will ultimately do him more harm than good, which means she has to be a little bit more creative in how she treats it, but that's no great issue. It would be better still if he would stop trying to walk around the house on it and surrender to a few weeks of sheer bed rest, but the likelihood of that happening is essentially nil, too.
She blows lightly on her fingertips, then braces the opposite side of his leg with her other hand while the first comes to stroke lightly down the length of his ankle. Her fingers are cold, but it's a dry, tempered chill instead of the strong sharpness of ice outright.]
You realize that you very likely owe your life to the fact that he is not his father, don't you?