"Been shot before, me. This isn't near as bad as those other times."
This time he had a clean hospital and modern medicine and those wonder-painkillers. Magical healers.
"Bet I'll recover in half the time! By the Christmas ball, I'll be dancing you around the sparkly tree once again."
It was ambitious, really. Slowly he shifted over and rose from the bed. His physicians had insisted on as much movement as was comfortable, and Jack was hardly the sitting type.
That had been John.
He thought of the other man and his cane and his injuries, imagined or no. The pirate did not want to turn out like that, thinking himself into an infirmity. No. No, never.
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"Been shot before, me. This isn't near as bad as those other times."
This time he had a clean hospital and modern medicine and those wonder-painkillers. Magical healers.
"Bet I'll recover in half the time! By the Christmas ball, I'll be dancing you around the sparkly tree once again."
It was ambitious, really. Slowly he shifted over and rose from the bed. His physicians had insisted on as much movement as was comfortable, and Jack was hardly the sitting type.
That had been John.
He thought of the other man and his cane and his injuries, imagined or no. The pirate did not want to turn out like that, thinking himself into an infirmity. No. No, never.