[The contact was brief. Palm to palm for less than a moment- and Adele sees.
Blood. Bits of bone, fillets of tendon and carefully almost artfully peeled back skin. It doesn't shake her as bad as it should, not yet. It's terrible. Irreparable damage, even with magic- but. Just a possibility. A blow to her pride. A patient she cannot cure. It's nothing.
Not until it registers that those mangled hands are her own.
Then it is all she can do to keep from screaming. Whatever else Rei saw? She doesn't want to know. Not if that, the man that laughs and her hands are so clear in her mind's eye for a moment.
Adele stumbles backward, hand over her mouth. Whole. Unbroken. For now.]
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Blood. Bits of bone, fillets of tendon and carefully almost artfully peeled back skin. It doesn't shake her as bad as it should, not yet. It's terrible. Irreparable damage, even with magic- but. Just a possibility. A blow to her pride. A patient she cannot cure. It's nothing.
Not until it registers that those mangled hands are her own.
Then it is all she can do to keep from screaming. Whatever else Rei saw? She doesn't want to know. Not if that, the man that laughs and her hands are so clear in her mind's eye for a moment.
Adele stumbles backward, hand over her mouth. Whole. Unbroken. For now.]
What- what the hell?!