• closed • the truth of letting go lies in the answer

[wardance]

who Masamune wardance & Sieglinde grunehexe
what serious life changing decisions and requests are being made.
when forward dated to after the Recollection Festivities have concluded.
where In Residence (Oska)
warnings bad mothers mentioned and some squicky bone breaking of a 12-year-old's feet ;;

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[ Although he has spent plenty of time socializing already, Masamune has also spent more time than what most here who know him to have ever done silent and by himself. The library has been an unlikely background to see the young warlord in, but following the end of the end of the recollection ceremony, Masamune has spent a lot of his time flipping through bound pages.

Now, back in his room, he has brought that atmosphere with him to a chair, wearing more modern casual attire, a white dog loyally resting by his feet. For Sieglinde, the door is always unlocked and doesn't require or expect a knock (although manners would help....). He glances up over his the top of his book curiously when he hears it open, the white dog's ears twitching curiously as it raises its head to greet the newest company to join them, tail already wagging. ]

Comments

[sengetsu]

You will have to teach me, then, when you are able - it would save a great many lives. [Would it have saved Masamune's vision? That was blood poison of a different sort, but he can't help but wonder - there are parallels in his mind, between then and now. His expression is a little more somber when he looks down to continue his work]

I'm going to start on the other foot, now.

[It goes quicker, this time, now that he has the sense of how hard he has to dig his fingers in to feel for the bones. When he's done, he bandages and splints that one, too.]

[grunehexe]

It will be my pleasure.

[After all... That's what she had to do to make up for what she had created, the potential damage she had wrought in her own world. The drive to make up for that sin had been the only thing that pulled her away from the muzzle of a gun, and it was now the thing that had driven her to ask Masamune to rebreak her feet.

She had to do what she could to actually heal, instead of hurt.

Sieglinde nodded, giving her alright for Kojuro to go ahead, feeling over the delicate bones of her feet, hidden as they were beneath twisted and damaged muscle and ligaments, deadened nerves. The drugs kept her to whimpers, (she'd spent her screams already with Masamune), until he's finished and she instead concentrates on breathing, in, out, in, out, wiping a bit of pale sweat from her brow, rubbing away any traces that she could.]

- my thanks.

[sengetsu]

[when he's done, he tucks the sheet back in place, and straightens up. Sieglinde's thanks is acknowledged with a small bow in her direction.]

I'm sorry it wasn't easier on you. Though - someone with more training than me should check, next time. [His skills are almost entirely in the realm of combat medicine - that, and whatever Masamune needed.]

[grunehexe]

Something like this could not be easy- it is fine.

[After all, it was breaking her feet and trying to rearrange bones, muscles, and tendons bound for years. But what she really meant was that she hadn't made it easier. She could have rendered herself unconscious, but she wished to supervise the operation, so she'd had to be awake... And she could have dulled the pain more, but. In a sick way, she'd wanted the pain of it.

If she was going to unbind the proof of her ignorance and sin, the least it could do was hurt.

But she's grateful now to lay back, push her hip-length hair out of her way weakly, already feeling unpleasant despite the amount of drugs she'd taken.]

From tomorrow I shall take over care... You needn't worry.

[As much as her crippling handicap meant to her, in the terms of her world and her entire life... It had only been to keep Masamune calm and out of respect for Kojuro himself that she'd allowed him to be called at all.]

[sengetsu]

[He's not sure how wise that is, but while he's concerned, he knows it isn't his place to overrule her. And he does trust her skill - just her ability to use good judgement when it comes to herself. So, for now, he doesn't argue with her on it]

Did you need anything else before I let you rest? [and go shout at Masamune some, nbd]

[grunehexe]

[It had been said a doctor should never make themselves their own patient... But Sieglinde seemed intent on doing just that. But for now, at least, she acquised to leaning on Kojuro, on Masamune, taking up precious little space in his bed, already trying to make herself comfortable again, give in to the call of medications and soothing, drugged sleep that would mean relief from the pounding pain below her ankles.]

No... That will be enough, thank you.

[She would be back half-unconscious within no time.]

[sengetsu]

Rest well, then.

[And with that, he heads out of the room to go deal with his other problem of the evening.]