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I shookto survive the guy killing ic, an was my probation officer"
"Probation?" Butters asked
"If I screwed up again, he was supposed to chop ood excuse to do it"
Butters blinked up at me, surprised
"I spent the first several years of uy Getting hounded and harassed by hihtmares for a while, and he was in theht pursued by an i a wicked cold sword
Butters began to wet the bandages over the leg wound "And you're helping him?"
I shrugged "He thought I was a dangerous animal and needed to be put down He really believed it, and acted accordingly"
Butters gavehim?"
"He rong," I said "That doesn't make him a villain It just h to kill him"
"Reconciled, eh?"
"Not especially"
Butters lifted his eyebrows "Then why'd he come to you for help?"
"Last place anyone would look for hiuess"
"Jesus Christ," Butters e off, and found a wound es puckered like a littlefroer"
"That's probably because it was done with soer"
"A sword?" Butters said "You've got to be kidding me"
"The Council's old school," I said "Really, really, really old school"
Butters shook his head "Wash your hands the way I just did Do it thorough-takes two or three et back here I need an extra pair of hands"
I sed "Uh Butters, I don't know if I'uy to-"
"Oh bite me, wizard boy," Butters said, his tone annoyed "You haven't got ato stand on If it's okay that I'm not a doctor, it's okay that you aren't a nurse So wash your freaking hands and help me before we lose him"
I stared at Butters helplessly for a second Then I got up and washedhands
For the record, surgeries aren't pretty There's a hideous sense of inti, and it feels so in on a naked parent Only there's ore Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood It's e all at the same time
"There," Butters said, an infinity later "Okay, let go Get your hands out of my way"
"It cut the artery?" I asked
"Oh, hell no," Butters said "Whoever stabbed him barely nicked it Otherwise he'd be dead"
"But it's fixed, right?"
"For soery of the roughest sort, but the wound should stay closed as long as he doesn't go walking around on it And he should get looked at by a real doctor soonest" He frowned in concentration "Just give me a minute to close up here"