There are only a couple of people in his memory that have ever said his name with relief like that, so it's a little startling to him at first, but he recovers quickly enough.
"Well, at least we don't have to dig it out, right?" Small favors. Having it go straight through meant getting the bleeding to stop would be harder, but if she'd already managed to bandage it, that was about as good as it could get right now.
She's shivering, that's also fucking obvious, and his fingers immediately go to the buttons of his suit coat. "Take that thing off before you freeze to death. You can have mine." He didn't have gloves or anything, but his jacket would be long enough on her frame and arms to cover everything up anyway. His lips press together as she explains what happened in the vaguest of senses, but he doesn't need details. "And gone long enough to run into trouble, by the looks of it."
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There are only a couple of people in his memory that have ever said his name with relief like that, so it's a little startling to him at first, but he recovers quickly enough.
"Well, at least we don't have to dig it out, right?" Small favors. Having it go straight through meant getting the bleeding to stop would be harder, but if she'd already managed to bandage it, that was about as good as it could get right now.
She's shivering, that's also fucking obvious, and his fingers immediately go to the buttons of his suit coat. "Take that thing off before you freeze to death. You can have mine." He didn't have gloves or anything, but his jacket would be long enough on her frame and arms to cover everything up anyway. His lips press together as she explains what happened in the vaguest of senses, but he doesn't need details. "And gone long enough to run into trouble, by the looks of it."