[ This is pathetic, Claude thinks to himself, that he can't seem to unwind his fingers from around Sylvain's arm or shoulder despite the instruction. Despite knowing it'll be fine, and that this isn't any more embarrassing than being in a healer's tent. Really, at least these injuries aren't ones he's sort of responsible for receiving from a move far too risky that he'd taken anyway.
He should be reassured by that and everything else, given that enough sense has returned to him that he knows Sylvain isn't going to intentionally hurt him, but closing his eyes feels beyond him at this point in time. Claude opens his mouth and starts to say something, but that cough returns from earlier and rattles his chest to the point where he has to let go of Sylvain because it's that or cough in the other man's face. ]
I didn't eat whatever it was. [ The words are still a little choked when he manages to get them out, when he finally has enough breath to get them out, and like this explains anything. In some warped version of an apology Claude reaches for the collar of his shirt to undo it in what little assistance he can offer only to stare at his hands instead when he realizes something else that'd gone mostly unnoticed to now. ] I still can't feel my hands.
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He should be reassured by that and everything else, given that enough sense has returned to him that he knows Sylvain isn't going to intentionally hurt him, but closing his eyes feels beyond him at this point in time. Claude opens his mouth and starts to say something, but that cough returns from earlier and rattles his chest to the point where he has to let go of Sylvain because it's that or cough in the other man's face. ]
I didn't eat whatever it was. [ The words are still a little choked when he manages to get them out, when he finally has enough breath to get them out, and like this explains anything. In some warped version of an apology Claude reaches for the collar of his shirt to undo it in what little assistance he can offer only to stare at his hands instead when he realizes something else that'd gone mostly unnoticed to now. ] I still can't feel my hands.