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Nonsexual acts of Intimacy - Patching up a wound
Just a scratch, nothing more. He’d had survived much worse over the course of his…career. On countless occasions, Nori had found the business end of a weapon embedded in his flesh, twisting and ripping until the aftermath left him with the nearly impossible task of carting his sorry hide home. Or to a healer, whichever he could find first. He’d feared for his life more than he cared to remember, and still he had pulled through. Exact details on how he’d managed such a feat, who could say for sure. A mystery, that was, but he certainly wasn’t complaining about it.
But this — this was nothing more than a scrape. It probably looked far worse than it actually was. Surely the worst that would come of it had already happened, when the blood had seeped into his eye and every little twitch of his brow worsened the constant sting clinging beneath his skin. It was thin, and deep, but it was hardly worth fussing over, where Nori was concerned. A scratch wouldn’t kill him…
…as far as he knew, anyway. It would kind of figure that something so small would be the thing to finally do him in.
Ah, but perhaps he would be spared such a cruel, humiliating fate, as this time he had help precisely when he’d needed it. A lass he recognized, vaguely — perhaps he’d seen her in the markets or something of that sort — who had turned the corner in the same moment Nori had, as the thief slipped away from a rather…unsightly scene. He expected a fuss, or the usual brush-off he received from other passing patrons — he was a stranger to most of them, and a criminal to the rest; why would they raise a finger to help him?
. That was simply the way of things, in his mind. Naturally, when she’d offered assistance instead, he’d held his fair share of doubt — and surprise.
Since the thief had given his reluctant agreement, that obnoxious sting had disappeared under the dam’s ministrations. A fact he was more than grateful for, as it was starting to make his eye throb right along with it. However, her insistent poking and prodding seemed to be doing more harm than good.
It hurt, dammit! And Nori’s patience with it all had long since run thin.
“I — oi!” And interrupted complaint, followed by a hand raised to swat at her own. Anything to get them away, if only for a little while. ”It’s fine! Just…jus’ stop touchin’ it!”