carpenter's plane
alastair knows that to truly carve a soul into a brand new animal, you have to be willing to carve with more than just pain. because there's carving,
but there's also shaping.
lovingly. with soft kind hands and praising whispers pressed to the shell of a mutilated ear.
so good. so good for him.
a gentle hand sweeping over blooded flesh, shaping him like smoothed curving wood under a carpenter's plane. and the praise wasn't untrue -- he let the honesty creep into his voice -- but there was a purpose to it.
under his hands, a new being was taking shape.
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