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Diarmuid | Pilgrimage ([personal profile] thenovice) wrote 2019-09-13 10:55 pm (UTC)

[The 16-year-old winces as the man turns and goes, and probably exchanges glances with those who had come along to watch out for him— gives them a gentle gesture that everything is going fine, despite how he must look to anyone with common sense.

The question is offered, and they both know it’s a little ridiculous.

But it’s something other than anxiety-inducing quiet. His hand fidgets with the robe sleeve draped over the cast.]


It’s alright. I’m — I have pain medication, so it’s not as bad as it seems...

I — um. I should be able to take it off in a — a month or so. [The hole through his shoulder from an arrow is a little worse, honestly. But even with... all things considered, the monk doesn’t want to make Quentin feel worse.] This arm was already... a little stiff anyway; I was stabbed there a few months ago.

I doubt I’d be much of a baseball pitcher these days.

[A pause.]

You have “baseball” where you’re from, I hope, or that made little sense.

[He’s rambling, voice cracking, eyes passing over Quentin’s hands every to often.

you’re fine you’re fine you’re fine ]

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