[ He's a little curious what that "worse" might have consisted of, but this probably isn't the best time to ask for an elaboration. Anyway, he's been through worse himself, and Seteth has supposedly been alive almost a hundred times as long as he has, so he doubts it's an exaggeration.
Gesturing toward an exam table... that was likely not actually intended for people to climb on, but whatever, it should work for their purposes. ]
Lie down here in the prone position, then, if you don't mind. We'll start with breaking one; I don't expect it will take too much force, but I'd still rather get it out of the way now to avoid potentially disrupting an incision wound later.
[ Applies pressure, and... it snaps about a quarter of the way down from the top. Assuming this doesn't go too badly, he'll break it again closer to the base after this. ]
[...he wasn’t sure what level of pain he was expecting from that, but it hurts enough to get a muffled cry of pain out of him that he just barely manages to grit his teeth down on.
It takes him a second to compose himself before he can give a strained comment on it.]
My... apologies, I was not expecting it to be quite that bad...
Hm... I wouldn't have thought so either. It seems hollow up here toward the end, actually. It's not just pain from the pressure being applied?
[ Seteth doesn't really seem like someone who would be a wimp about pain, or he probably wouldn't be agreeing to any of this, so that's... interesting. ]
Let me know if you're ready to try it again further down or if you need a minute.
...I'm not sure what there really is here that would work well for that, but...
[ He glances over toward the chemistry equipment... well, there's some kind of rubber pipette bulb; that's probably as good as they're going to get, even if it's going to make this look strangely kinky.
He'll pick it up and hold it up for approval as he takes it over to the sink for a wash. ]
He finishes washing it and hands it over, and once Seteth seems as ready as he can be... ]
All right, then, here we go again.
[ It's a little tougher breaking it down this low, but still not terribly difficult.
He... does not expect it to start bleeding like it does this time, though, like cutting an animal's claw too short. They'd compared the spikes to fingernails, sure, but this isn't what he had in mind.
Thankfully the bleeding isn't too hard to keep under control with Sanguis, so there won't be a mess, but yikes. ]
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[ No risk of excessive bleeding with two Sanguis users on the scene. ]
Just to be clear, this is all going to be without anesthetic, even a topical one. I do have some pain medicine you can take if you'd like.
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[...you know, he is pre-modern, what even is an anesthetic...]
I should be fine with that, I think. It would be nice to have some actual healing magic to help with that, but... well, I have likely endured worse.
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[ He's a little curious what that "worse" might have consisted of, but this probably isn't the best time to ask for an elaboration. Anyway, he's been through worse himself, and Seteth has supposedly been alive almost a hundred times as long as he has, so he doubts it's an exaggeration.
Gesturing toward an exam table... that was likely not actually intended for people to climb on, but whatever, it should work for their purposes. ]
Lie down here in the prone position, then, if you don't mind. We'll start with breaking one; I don't expect it will take too much force, but I'd still rather get it out of the way now to avoid potentially disrupting an incision wound later.
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[Seteth will get up on the table and lie face down, and... okay, it's still kind of nervewracking, but you know.]
Just warn me beforehand so I can brace myself in case it is painful.
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I'm going to try it on one on the upper back a little to the left of the spine, unless you have some other preference.
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[alright. brace himself. brace himself.]
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Here we go.
[ Applies pressure, and... it snaps about a quarter of the way down from the top. Assuming this doesn't go too badly, he'll break it again closer to the base after this. ]
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It takes him a second to compose himself before he can give a strained comment on it.]
My... apologies, I was not expecting it to be quite that bad...
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[ Seteth doesn't really seem like someone who would be a wimp about pain, or he probably wouldn't be agreeing to any of this, so that's... interesting. ]
Let me know if you're ready to try it again further down or if you need a minute.
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[okay. okay, he's over it.]
No, I don't quite understand it either, based on that. You...
[...he sighs in frustration.]
...Can I have something to bite down on, I suppose.
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...I'm not sure what there really is here that would work well for that, but...
[ He glances over toward the chemistry equipment... well, there's some kind of rubber pipette bulb; that's probably as good as they're going to get, even if it's going to make this look strangely kinky.
He'll pick it up and hold it up for approval as he takes it over to the sink for a wash. ]
Good enough?
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[there's no way this isn't going to end up looking weirdly kinky, let's be honest with ourselves here.]
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He finishes washing it and hands it over, and once Seteth seems as ready as he can be... ]
All right, then, here we go again.
[ It's a little tougher breaking it down this low, but still not terribly difficult.
He... does not expect it to start bleeding like it does this time, though, like cutting an animal's claw too short. They'd compared the spikes to fingernails, sure, but this isn't what he had in mind.
Thankfully the bleeding isn't too hard to keep under control with Sanguis, so there won't be a mess, but yikes. ]