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Ulla ([personal profile] neverwaitslong) wrote2025-03-29 09:04 pm
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endofvanity: (grim)

[personal profile] endofvanity 2023-10-23 01:01 pm (UTC)(link)

My cabin.

[ But he can hear in her voice how tired she sounds. ]

Don't exert yourself unnecessarily. I've been hurt worse before.

endofvanity: (well shit)

[personal profile] endofvanity 2023-10-25 04:40 am (UTC)(link)

[ The door slides open, revealing the glorified closet that is an officer's cabin on a Royal Navy vessel, entirely unchanged since Ulla last saw it in the day of Fitzjames's arrival. Fitzjames himself is in his shirtsleeves and has a makeshift bandage awkwardly tied around his upper left arm and shoulder. There is quite a bit of blood on his shirt. ]

endofvanity: (what?)

[personal profile] endofvanity 2023-10-25 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)

"You needn't—" he starts to protest, but she's already half out, and all he can do is try to assist her, gritting his teeth against the pain in his injured arm.

When she goes to slide the door shut, he hesitates for just a moment before ducking down to ensure that the end of her tail doesn't get caught, only wondering as he's already doing so as to whether he's overstepping.

"I'm sorry," he says, looking around at the space that is now almost entirely filled by Ulla—such that he's sort of cornered against the edge of his berth. "I—I ought to have gone to you."

endofvanity: (yeah right)

[personal profile] endofvanity 2023-10-25 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)

He unwinds the bandage from his shoulder and gingerly removes his shirt so that she can get a better look at it. There's an ugly slash across the bicep that goes right over the musket-ball scar, and another across the top of the shoulder. Both are still oozing blood.

It really hurts like hell, but Fitzjames is used to carrying on through pain.

"The woman who did this was not in her right mind," he says. "I can't blame her for it. Fortunately, Herr Leickenbloom was able to stop her, or else it could have gone much more poorly."