#yes im out here making abernant sister content again

[swimmingnewsie]

burning growth

summary: Adaine could still feel the pain. // ((adaine deals with the effects of power word pain weeks later. aewlyn helps))

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Adaine felt pain constantly.

It ached in her muscles as she tranced at night. It had been a month since they had returned from the Forest of the Nightmare King, one month of sleeping in a newly converted bunk bed with her older sister, one month of being the daughter of Jawbone in legality. And every single day of that month had been veiled in pain. 

At first Adaine had figured the pain was just leftover from sleeping in the van for weeks. While the Moon Haven was comfortable, it still was cramped and didn’t make for a proper bed to lie on. But even with a proper night’s rest in a soft bed, her muscles twinged and burned endlessly. Most of the time it was light enough she could ignore it, just an annoyance. 

But this morning had been something completely different. 

[continued on AO3]