fic update
Dec. 21st, 2020 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7update, my fic
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because when you have a chapter ready to go you might as well!
How Detrimental Pain Is https://archiveofourown.org/works/27993699/chapters/69145128, which will conclude the story Very Dark Magic, but only because I want to start a new story for them dealing with the fallout from rescuing Aiden, and some new characters (well, familiar characters; new to this subseries) will get to be in it.
meanwhile, this isn’t from Aiden’s POV but you can hear him thinking these fucking idiots deserve each other:
“That’s true,” Lambert said, “toughing it out never works.”
Aiden made a very faint noise of protest at that, which Keira realized was him reacting to Lambert, not her.
“As if you’ve ever sought timely medical treatment,” Keira said to Lambert.
“I’m not the one hiding blistered fingers right this moment,” Lambert said.
“That’s hardly fair,” Keira said, astonished and betrayed. She’d thought she was hiding them better than that. She’d given no sign, it had to be a guess.
“I knew you hadn’t healed them from before,” Lambert said. “Keira!”
Oh. It had been a guess. He had seen them earlier, after all. “I’m fine,” she said, irritated at her own stupidity. “I’ll fix them once I’m back in my workshop. I’ll have to go there and get some supplies to– well, I can make up the solution here. Lambert, can you put a kettle on to boil? I’m sure there’s one in the house.”
“There is,” Lambert said.
“Did you ever take anything for the ribs?” Aiden asked mildly. Too mildly; he was needling Lambert.
“No, because they aren’t broken,” Lambert shot back from across the room.
“Did I or did I not just finish explaining how detrimental pain is,” Keira said absently, very gently holding Aiden’s eyelid back as she examined the hazy crystalline surface of the artificial eyeball, “and did you or did you not just this moment agree with me–”
“There’s toughing something out,” Lambert said, “and there’s weighing the cost versus the benefits to your purse and your liver.” (Your picture was not posted)
