@ithirial liked for a starter. -> frenchie
though the transformation from feminine form to masculine has sealed the wounds caused by the expedition to break the rest of their rag-tag out of the two vought camps in different parts of the country, the space is still tender, and they're not strong enough to keep pushing back against butcher and august. even serena has pressured them to have it looked at.
so now, the six-ten dragon crammed still into a too-small body sits on a crate that barely holds their weight in this form, their shirt pulled off and folded, set aside as if there's any decorum to still be had when everyone in this building is bloody, bedraggled, and fucking. their body is littered with a myriad of scars, most deep and barely faded over despite their age, but the mark in question? it is flared bright scarlet along their side, and even though flesh has pulled over the once-wound, it looks irritated and tender. as if the 'scar' is only surface level, and all of the tissue beneath that initial layer is still torn asunder.
"it isn't that bad," they lie instinctively. this is not the worse they've ever been, theoretically. but before, all the wounds had been inflicted with medical strategy and equipment, the healing process an experiment to be studied. here, black noir's blade had been jagged when it entered their side and ripped back outward. it's a shock they're not dead. "i'm certain someone else could use more of your attentions, serge."
a familiarity they have not really earned through anything but, perhaps, tales from butcher passed back and forth when one was not present, about the other. mismatched, slit-pupil'd tiffanies shift up to him from where they barely meet his shoulder perched this way. "i am not worth half the trouble you all have gone through for me." this, said about the fact that he had helped william pull her from the grasps of vought in montana, and despite that they had helped orchestrate frenchie, dogmeat and marvin's escape, even if they had been present at the camp with serena and august, instead.
