[They're ugly cuts, but not serious. Yuan is more concerned for the raggedness, rather than the amount Kratos is bleeding.]
[He sits opposite Kratos, one leg propped on the other knee and the kit balanced on his calf. There's a brief hesitation over method -- Yuan has lost any knack for this he once had -- before he dampens a piece of cotton with antiseptic and bends over Kratos's wrists, beginning with the left and pausing occasionally to blot welling blood away from the wound.]
Once I'm done with you.
[He doubts that Kratos has progressed to being worried by the sight of his own blood. Yuan won't terrify the rest of the base by turning up blood-spattered, but he's hardly going to strip right here, either.]
no subject
[He sits opposite Kratos, one leg propped on the other knee and the kit balanced on his calf. There's a brief hesitation over method -- Yuan has lost any knack for this he once had -- before he dampens a piece of cotton with antiseptic and bends over Kratos's wrists, beginning with the left and pausing occasionally to blot welling blood away from the wound.]
Once I'm done with you.
[He doubts that Kratos has progressed to being worried by the sight of his own blood. Yuan won't terrify the rest of the base by turning up blood-spattered, but he's hardly going to strip right here, either.]
[Belatedly:]
This stings, doesn't it.