Carina

Elias rolled his eyes and laughed. "Okay, I'll get you the sword even though you didn't say please or ask. But only because you saved my life." He picked up ...

"Here, I'll show you so you can copy me," Elias continued to tease. He looked at her with a pout, arched eyebrows, and big eyes. "Please?" He then dropped the ...

Elias seemed to study her in the brief pause. "What's wrong?" he asked. She gestured vaguely at her sword, just in front of her toes. "It's so far away." "Ah." ...

"Of course," he said, putting all the medical supplies back in one container and then standing back up. He extended out an arm for her to take. She took a ...

Elias smiled gently at her and then put away all the stitching supplies. "It's been a while since I did that, so I hope you can move okay. I can ...

He nodded and firmly held her arm perched on his kneeled knee, scraping off the gauze and then starting. The needle punctered the end of the gash as he started ...

Elias nodded, taking out the medical bag and then the needle and thread. He spent some moments threading it through the needle, and then held it close to her arm. ...

"I'm done," he announced, seemingly to communicate every step with her, even if it was obvious. "Should I cauterize your arm too?"

"That's right," Evaline said, watching him flip through the first pages of the book. "Have you heard of them? Apparently Mikel thought they were comical, so at least there's that."

Evaline beamed at James, pleased that he seemed excited. She spent some moments quickly studying his expression, trying not to forget it this time. It was very rare for James ...

Evaline slowly crossed her arms and leaned back against the table, repressing a smirk, but failing as James turned towards her with a grin. "Perhaps," she said nonchalantly. "But if ...

"It's like a..." Evaline started to explain, but then trailed off, deciding it was too difficult to explain. She shook her head and the thought away. "Not at all," she ...

"You'd be a human calculator," Evaline said with a playful smile, even though she wasn't even sure he knew what a calculator was. "And I'm sure reading the children's book ...

"Wow," Evaline said flatly, but she was repressing a laugh and a smile. "Already getting smarter just by calculating imaginary numbers. Imagine how much smarter you'd be if you had ...

Evaline lightly smiled in amusement. "Plenty of time to be doing pushups while you're sick and wounded. Otherwise maybe there are other ways you could work out. Like..." She paused. ...