with a vacant look. Granted, he still looked a little annoyed, but I had come to terms with the fact that Levent’s face just tended to look that way.
Though was ready to face an angry Levent, somehow this quiet Levent was even harder to deal with. I could not bring myself to talk, my tongue felt heavy and sticky in my mouth.
I blinked in disbelief as I saw his mouth curl in a smirk before he muttered, “I suspected as much.”
My heart beat once before I shouted, “You what?!”
He narrowed his eyes against my sudden volume. I tried my best not to yell, but the pent up guilt was suddenly off my shoulders.
“I felt bad about this for a week and you knew all along? I don’t know why I apologized.” I could feel tears creeping into my eyes, mostly out of sudden relief. “Now I feel like an idiot…” I trailed off, wiping my eyes with the back of my forearms.
I pointed at the kin suddenly. “Now you have to let me help you.”
“What?” He said lamely, not even having a chance to react.
“I need to get to your wound, and now that you’re awake I can stop mutilating your clothes.” Somewhere in the middle of the sentence I began gesturing with the dagger again. I quickly put it down as the kin sat up and looked at his shredded cloak with mild disappointment.
“Fine,” he sighed, unlatching the cloak and throwing it in the corner. When he began undoing his shirt, I turned away rapidly.
“Would you warn me before you do that!” I stuttered, my face uncomfortably hot.
“I thought you had already seen-“
“Well – yes – but that’s…” By the time I had stopped tripping on my tongue, I heard him return to lying on the pillow. I sighed, steeled myself, and turned around again.
Thankfully the dragon-kin had his face buried in the pillow when I turned around, or he would have seen all the blood run out of my red face. I had to close my eyes and take another deep breath before I could even look at his back.
The scars that I had seen from across the room were even more horrifying this close, and the blood that spread from his wound did not help them look any less