They re-entered the den and he didn't even comment on her efforts of tidying and hanging up most of his trophies. She was mildly disappointed but more grateful he wasn't breaking another toe. She did just try to escape, but she had hoped to brush it off as a trip to the stream to bathe. Though he hadn't given her a chance and to suggest it now was just back talk.
She took a rag and began cleaning her wounds carefully. Wincing silently as it brushed painfully over her nose and when she made a wrong move with her arm.
Using some of the morning tea she struggles to make an herbal paste in a bowl. She let the paste sit for a minute as she steeled herself to reset her toe and bind it. She had never done this to herself before.
As Flare's slave, he has full permission to do what he likes with her and enter any of Demelza's threads.
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