[ gently as she turns to let him, she peels her jacket down her shoulder, exposing the line of her neck and shoulder, the white, white skin. Pale, and where it is almost bright, the wound is ugly. The bullet scrape is bright, red and tacked with dried blood, and a water colour of bruising is forming it's way down her shoulder. Splotches of red and blue and brown coming up under her skin. An ugly painting done in the mediums of frantic escaping. Under his fingers there's something vulnerable to it she is yet to understand if she likes or not.
It's finally acknowledging it that makes it seem to hurt, good at ignoring pain. What was this, to her veins being seared and choked, her organs dying without eridium to fill them. It's agony. But the air stings where it touches it and immediately she feels her eyes fill up. Shuts them tight and -- Parker had just gotten up with worse. Parker through herself off a building and threw up from pain only later. Wanted to be like that. She didn't need to be such a baby, vault hunters grinned as they stuck fingers into their own bullet wounds, she could be better. She would be like them, she would, she would. ]
My scars or your respect? [ an attempt at brevity as she smiles at him, or tries to. A prickle of sweat at her brow, at the hollow of her throat. ]
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It's finally acknowledging it that makes it seem to hurt, good at ignoring pain. What was this, to her veins being seared and choked, her organs dying without eridium to fill them. It's agony. But the air stings where it touches it and immediately she feels her eyes fill up. Shuts them tight and -- Parker had just gotten up with worse. Parker through herself off a building and threw up from pain only later. Wanted to be like that. She didn't need to be such a baby, vault hunters grinned as they stuck fingers into their own bullet wounds, she could be better. She would be like them, she would, she would. ]
My scars or your respect? [ an attempt at brevity as she smiles at him, or tries to. A prickle of sweat at her brow, at the hollow of her throat. ]