austerose:
Aristocratic features couldn’t help but form a grimace as fingertips pressed daintily against the torn linen of his shirt stained crimson. “This? It’s nothing much. I’ve had worse.” Of course, that worse was merely a little owwie, barely more serious than the laceration marring his skin now, received in some sword training with his father at a young age. Auster had never seen the typically docile Queen so enraged before in his life and feared he’d be forced to take over far too early after she murdered his father and was locked up in the dungeon for it. Putting on one of his famous the-devil-may-care-but-Auster-does-not grins, he chirped, “Besides, I hear people totally dig scars!”
Initially curious fingers retreat back to her side, it’s rude to touch people without permission, she reminds herself, even if that particular wound looked more worse for wear. “But--Auster--that’s not just--are you sure you’re okay?” She teeters forward again, eyes scanning to see the entire thing. He must be crazy if he thinks this is nothing much. This is too much, with her own grimace, she wraps petite fingers around his arm and politely pulls him along. “We’re going to the nurse. I refuse to watch you just bleed out here. We’ll have to get that shirt cleaned too”














