The gentleness of Gideon's fingers makes her shudder, discomfort sitting low in her gut even as she responds willingly to the touch, letting herself be moved and positioned, the clippers an odd vibrating sensation as they track over her scalp. Locks of hair fall in her lap and she brushes them away, and when her head is bare again it feels almost like the lifting of a weight.
She does not judge the nervous edge to Palamedes' voice; if she hadn't been so panicked the last time, so desperate to get the process over and done with, Harrow might have had time for such uncertainty herself. That he speaks to her like a colleague is the more important thing, a respect she hadn't known she missed until it was found again. Even in a situation like this.
"I can," she says, sensing out the particular signature of the scar tissue and going deeper, disabling the nerve endings along the lines she expects the knife to follow. "Once you begin, I should be able to retard the Lyctoral healing factor as well, though that will take considerably more energy." If she doesn't, any work they do will be largely for naught.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2021-05-22 08:54 pm (UTC)She does not judge the nervous edge to Palamedes' voice; if she hadn't been so panicked the last time, so desperate to get the process over and done with, Harrow might have had time for such uncertainty herself. That he speaks to her like a colleague is the more important thing, a respect she hadn't known she missed until it was found again. Even in a situation like this.
"I can," she says, sensing out the particular signature of the scar tissue and going deeper, disabling the nerve endings along the lines she expects the knife to follow. "Once you begin, I should be able to retard the Lyctoral healing factor as well, though that will take considerably more energy." If she doesn't, any work they do will be largely for naught.