[ For all their lack of convention, he feels it an important enough distinction to make. A medical doctor would have had the experience and level-headedness to know where to begin on a patient without wasting precious seconds hesitating.
A medical professional might not have assumed a plea for help was a joke.
Even so, he can forgive a break in his imagined, idealized protocol when he has a success to show for himself rather than another corpse to explain, or yet another voice of regret haunting him in the night. Hesitating a moment longer, he breathes his relief slowly through Henry's hair, then finally tears himself away enough to look over the dark mage for lasting damage.
With panicked haze gone, he still sees no sign that wounds had ever existed at all. ]
And I really didn't do anything. How did I - how did you..? Am I dreaming?
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[ For all their lack of convention, he feels it an important enough distinction to make. A medical doctor would have had the experience and level-headedness to know where to begin on a patient without wasting precious seconds hesitating.
A medical professional might not have assumed a plea for help was a joke.
Even so, he can forgive a break in his imagined, idealized protocol when he has a success to show for himself rather than another corpse to explain, or yet another voice of regret haunting him in the night. Hesitating a moment longer, he breathes his relief slowly through Henry's hair, then finally tears himself away enough to look over the dark mage for lasting damage.
With panicked haze gone, he still sees no sign that wounds had ever existed at all. ]
And I really didn't do anything. How did I - how did you..? Am I dreaming?