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"No"

Her abilities told her it was a bad break Frowning at the jagged edges she could sense, she bade him to lie down flat on his back He resisted until she raised an eyebrow in a silent threat

They both knew she outranked hihten this," Lara said once he was in the position she’d requested, then punched in a strong painkiller through his skin before he could argue against it The do or old - were always the worst The last ti the lieutenant’s ed woht pressure of the der Conscious of his pride, she used her abilities to further da pain Only when the tension leached out of his body did she run her hands over the ar the position and seriousness of the break

"Is it like seeing a scan inside yourmore like his normal self

"Hmm?" This was an unusual injury - almost as if the bone had been crushed

Had Riordan not been changeling, with their race’s greater bone density, she’d likely have been dealing with a mass of splinters instead of pieces of solid bone

"I alondered, when you do your healer thing, what do you see?"

"It’s not like a scan," she e points in her s in that fashion -

Lara knew because she’d had the chance to have long discussions with a nuely as a result of those interactions that she’d had a more nuanced view of the Psy even before the Lauren family defected to SnowDancer

The Psy students she’d known e rather than e the sick and the hurt, a dedication that nation was thenon-Psy

"It’s more a ’sense,’ I suppose," she continued "Hard to describe, but it’s almost as if I become part of your body for an instant, able to pinpoint every fraghtened his arm "Whoa, that is so weird," he said, happily buzzed froh I know that’s my arm"

She kept a constant eye on his veins and fine blood vessels as she perfor to nick or otherwise cause further dae "This is a very severe break, Rory"

He made a face "Shh" His voice dropped to a whisper "My friends have forgotten that baby na, she said, "I won’t reed this" Riordan wasn’t one of the more accident-prone people in the den

Color kissed his cheekbones, his gaze darting to the doorway Lara went over and shut it before returning to work on him As she did so, she counteracted the more heady effects of the medication, so he could think clearly but without pain

It took him almost five minutes to speak

"It was a du spectacular I was in the s"

She kept her tone easy, nonjudgne, which included re any bone chips so that the shards wouldn’t turn into shrapnel in his bloodstream Her ability allowed her to coax those chips to the surface, but she had to use fine surgical tweezers to pluck theroaned

"Don’t look"

"I can’t help it" It sounded like he was gritting his teeth "So will I bepieces of bone now?"

"No, I’ll sti itself" Not quite correct, as she was the prih "It’s why you’ll be hungry after Make sure you eat a high-calorietheme how you did this" Another heavy silence before he finally said, "I decided to up the weights a level, except Iweighed a ton It tilted sideways at a really bad angle - I had the choice of letting it crush my chest orabout the bench press "Why were you working out alone?" Spotters were mandatory on the bench press, and Riordan had ht words

Texture of Intiether, Lara held her response

When she looked up after what the digital clock at the head of the bed told her was over fortythere with his lashes closed, a half smile on his face "Rory?" she whispered