[log] but i pursue in vain the sinking god

[apostatised]

The road to recovery is fraught with perils mostly the result of the man doing the recovering being a lousy patient. 'Uncooperative' is a kind word for his irritable attitude, and one can only assume that either the attending physician is being promised vast sums of money or a masochist. A distant third is the possibility of being just precisely that professional.

The wounds are cleaned, stitched (again - he's pitifully grateful for the nausea's passing), and healing; the physician watches closely for signs of an infection, but so far he seems to have been spared that, at least. This doesn't make it any less uncomfortably painful, and sleep comes fitfully at best. It's an altogether unpleasant experience and Martel spends much of it flat on his stomach, 'resting', partially because the physician threatened him with further bodily harm if he does anything now to rupture his stitches again.

Onelle's messenger ought to have found Candice by now, and since discovering that the Duchess sent word to his wife the thought has occurred to Martel that he's probably going to be in trouble when she compares one note to the other.

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[newmythology.livejournal.com]

"I'd really feel more comfortable if you were in a modern hospital," she sighs, "and what do you mean 'again'?"

[errantknights.livejournal.com]

Martel's grimace is eloquent on just how he feels about modern hospitals, but he doesn't comment on that. He studies the lamp, instead, while he answers her question. "The poison's antidote had me retching for days. It played merry hell with the stitches."

[newmythology.livejournal.com]

"I'm certain. And, ah, the assassins...?" She raises one eyebrow.

[errantknights.livejournal.com]

"I left the third alive to be interrogated." Which means he killed the other two. "You know, I don't think I'd killed anyone since the day I came back to life."

-wait.

[newmythology.livejournal.com]

She suspected that the majority of them would be dead. Candice tugs at one of her locs, absently, shaking her head to push back the anxiety that even the thought can provoke.

"Well, I sincerely regret that the streak was broken. That long?"

[errantknights.livejournal.com]

"I've been staying out of trouble," he drawls, which is intensely debatable, Martel. "And I do feel strongly about only working for money when I have the luxury of being choosy."

Yes, killing people is...work.

[newmythology.livejournal.com]

"Ah, of course. Even if I doubt that you've really been staying out of trouble so much as you've contented yourself with running alongside it." She smiles at him, fond.

"Should I keep reading?"

[errantknights.livejournal.com]

"I haven't bullied a monarch or a priest in months," he says, piously, before nodding. If she keeps reading long enough, he'll probably just fall asleep again.

[newmythology.livejournal.com]

"You haven't had as much opportunity," she says, wryly, and begins to read again, voice clear and even.