Kevin washes his own hands quickly and gets another cloth ready, prepping it with the antiseptic before he's ready to get on with cleaning.
It's hard work - he can use both hands but diesnt have full mobility with his burned one, so can't hold anything too small or too tight.
Now he uses that hand to touch Xie's, ask him to move the first so Kevin can see and clean the wound.
"You've never been nothing, Xie."
He's gentle, trying not to hurt Xie too much, but firm, knowing the sting of the disinfectant is just something he'll have to get through.
"He took way more from you than he gave. Would have kept on taking."
The wound is gaping, he realises. So mich for an expert knife man, Xie has hacked his own flesh away like the world's worst butcher.
And that thought hits Kevin sideways - Xie the master assassin, the beautiful lithe cat of a man, might have seriously damaged his ability to use that shoulder again. Something else Zhao has taken from him.
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Date: 2023-10-22 01:04 pm (UTC)It's hard work - he can use both hands but diesnt have full mobility with his burned one, so can't hold anything too small or too tight.
Now he uses that hand to touch Xie's, ask him to move the first so Kevin can see and clean the wound.
"You've never been nothing, Xie."
He's gentle, trying not to hurt Xie too much, but firm, knowing the sting of the disinfectant is just something he'll have to get through.
"He took way more from you than he gave. Would have kept on taking."
The wound is gaping, he realises. So mich for an expert knife man, Xie has hacked his own flesh away like the world's worst butcher.
And that thought hits Kevin sideways - Xie the master assassin, the beautiful lithe cat of a man, might have seriously damaged his ability to use that shoulder again. Something else Zhao has taken from him.