[It does at least explain the scar's surely seen--and felt--by now on Myr's arm, where the Merrow's teeth and the Dorchacht Coven's knives left their impression.
But, physically, he's all right; it's had more than a year to heal.
Mentally... He'll not exam that too closely. Not right now, not before someone who can sense it--someone who under ordinary circumstances he would trust with that vulnerability, but right now...
His hand tightens on his Dragon's arm; he lifts his chin and manages a brave smile. The expression's a signifier for an emotion that has nothing whatever to do with his words:] I do, and I will. Next I get the opportunity, I'll keep my heart and mind open. There's nothing to be gained from terror.
[The Cwyld's not the taint, after all. People could be rescued even weeks or months after catching it.
He can rationalize going that far with the Circle's madness if he thinks about it this way and doesn't go any further with that comparison to the taint, to a Blight, to the Archdemon that instinct tells him must be behind all this...]
You've not caught it yet, have you? [He likes to believe he'd know, but he also thought he'd have known the exact moment the Circle managed to set hooks in Viren and...he missed that.]
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But, physically, he's all right; it's had more than a year to heal.
Mentally... He'll not exam that too closely. Not right now, not before someone who can sense it--someone who under ordinary circumstances he would trust with that vulnerability, but right now...
His hand tightens on his Dragon's arm; he lifts his chin and manages a brave smile. The expression's a signifier for an emotion that has nothing whatever to do with his words:] I do, and I will. Next I get the opportunity, I'll keep my heart and mind open. There's nothing to be gained from terror.
[The Cwyld's not the taint, after all. People could be rescued even weeks or months after catching it.
He can rationalize going that far with the Circle's madness if he thinks about it this way and doesn't go any further with that comparison to the taint, to a Blight, to the Archdemon that instinct tells him must be behind all this...]
You've not caught it yet, have you? [He likes to believe he'd know, but he also thought he'd have known the exact moment the Circle managed to set hooks in Viren and...he missed that.]