[log] but i pursue in vain the sinking god
The road to recovery is fraught with perils mostly the result of the man doing the recovering being a lousy patient. 'Uncooperative' is a kind word for his irritable attitude, and one can only assume that either the attending physician is being promised vast sums of money or a masochist. A distant third is the possibility of being just precisely ( Read more... )
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'Trouble' indeed; Candice arrives in record time, being able to travel on her own speed and in her own way. It's early in the evening when she bypasses the physician and anyone else in her way, dusk just beginning to settle. She know Martel knows her presence, though, and if he's aware enough, he'll recognize she's there before she says anything.
But what she does say is this:
"I hear you've been giving your doctor hell."
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It's not that Martel wouldn't like to look at her, it's just that his present range of motion would require he sit up and turn around - but he knows she's there and he's entirely alert when he answers, dimly lit by the lamp beside the bed. "That seems like an exaggeration."
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"Figure of speech." She sits down next to the bed so he can look as best he can, pushing her coat back further.
"I started packing when I got your note. By the time I was ready to go, I got the other one."
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"I should've known," he says contemplatively, and tilts his head to the side against his arm so he can watch her. As far as he's concerned it's been altogether too long since the last time he saw her, and the fact he's laid up now seems highly unfair.
A beat passes.
"I did stay off the battlefield, you know."
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