[It's sometime well after L's dragged himself home and begun suturing his own wounds that Myr finally arrives.
He hadn't come at the first spike of pain over the Bond, though it had been his instinct to: L had told him it was all right, uncomfortable but survivable.
And Myr had believed that.
It was only when the first shreds of drugged wooziness began leaking into the Bond that he'd begun to believe that maybe the injury hadn't been so minor as L said--
And then Niles had resurrected himself, calling out of the blue to plead what had happened was an accident.
With all the sordid explaining that had followed, as Myr had finally, finally left work for the day and headed for L's side. The conversation with the Chimera had dragged out long and he'd been loathe to set hoof inside while having it, but at length it's done and dead (as Niles should have stayed) and he can abandon the garden for the indoors.
He doesn't knock, doesn't announce himself. This is his home--partway--and it's his Bonded who's left the whole place smelling of blood.
He tracks the scent to one of the bathrooms, throttling the instinct to bolt and the instinct to start yelling once he's found the right one.]
action, end of August, after Niles' call;
He hadn't come at the first spike of pain over the Bond, though it had been his instinct to: L had told him it was all right, uncomfortable but survivable.
And Myr had believed that.
It was only when the first shreds of drugged wooziness began leaking into the Bond that he'd begun to believe that maybe the injury hadn't been so minor as L said--
And then Niles had resurrected himself, calling out of the blue to plead what had happened was an accident.
With all the sordid explaining that had followed, as Myr had finally, finally left work for the day and headed for L's side. The conversation with the Chimera had dragged out long and he'd been loathe to set hoof inside while having it, but at length it's done and dead (as Niles should have stayed) and he can abandon the garden for the indoors.
He doesn't knock, doesn't announce himself. This is his home--partway--and it's his Bonded who's left the whole place smelling of blood.
He tracks the scent to one of the bathrooms, throttling the instinct to bolt and the instinct to start yelling once he's found the right one.]
Linden.
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