"Please," Ahmose begs. "Anything, it HURTS." There's pride and then there's stupidity, he KNOWS he needs help.
Kreyu nods in answer to his unspoken question.
When Skellig puts hands on him, he'll confirm what he likely already suspects. The injury is BAD. Not as bad as it COULD be, but bad. The nerves and the spinal cord are intact, but bone is displaced, pinching on the nerves as they run out of the spine and into his leg. And if the bone moves the wrong way or heals with bone spurs, it COULD cause damage to the spine. In the world he came from, something like this would be treated with surgery, with metal pins to hold the piece of bone in the right place as it healed.
Here, without magic, even if he could somehow keep the bones exactly where they are for months while he heals, it would mean a life of agony that even opium won't quell. But Skellig has magic, has more energy he can pull from in his bracelet, from Kreyu, from Neferu's desperate hope.
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Kreyu nods in answer to his unspoken question.
When Skellig puts hands on him, he'll confirm what he likely already suspects. The injury is BAD. Not as bad as it COULD be, but bad. The nerves and the spinal cord are intact, but bone is displaced, pinching on the nerves as they run out of the spine and into his leg. And if the bone moves the wrong way or heals with bone spurs, it COULD cause damage to the spine. In the world he came from, something like this would be treated with surgery, with metal pins to hold the piece of bone in the right place as it healed.
Here, without magic, even if he could somehow keep the bones exactly where they are for months while he heals, it would mean a life of agony that even opium won't quell. But Skellig has magic, has more energy he can pull from in his bracelet, from Kreyu, from Neferu's desperate hope.