LORD DE ROLO SENDS : I’m going to give you something for the pain now, okay? It will help.
the first sound that comes out of her mouth , entirely unbidden , is far too loud as it hits the air -- “ no ! ” it echoes off of the stone walls of this too - large building , rings in her ears . where has all of her careful training gone ? why can she not be graceful about this ? why must she be rude , risking her and her boys’ place in this strange city ? “ no , ” she repeats , quieter and yet still somehow more insistent . “ i-i don’t -- i don’t like medicine . ” before , her argument against medicine had been primarily taste and stubbornness based -- she doesn’t want to drink bitter herbs that were ground together , like a tea gone bad . and now . . . now , the only image that plays in her mind is that of herself , slipping a vial oh so easily into her parents’ servings at the dinner table , covert and unsuspected .
“ i can bear it , i can . ” if she can get @deniesmercy to take her to eadwulf -- no , with her leg in the state its in , he’d have to either carry her himself or get someone else to do it , and she can’t have that -- to bring eadwulf to her , he can mend her up enough that she can heal on her own . or if he’ll give her enough time to hobble her way to wherever eadwulf has found himself today -- probably having coffee with the sister of the man trying to ‘ help ’ her .
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