Gerard gives a nod and a murmured "Effectively," regarding the fire. Yes, that's not it exactly, but compared to chemical or frostbite that's the best comparison and closest to. What happened is he had grabbed Diego Molina's wrist, his own bare skin connecting with Molina's, and then the world went black with unimaginable pain.
Unimaginable until he died, anyway, and he found new levels of that word.
"I'll take anything," he says, too quickly to hide the desperation even if he manages to keep his voice mostly level. "Whatever you can do for it... if you can do anything at all, I'll take it and won't be upset it's not more."
He had come to accept these were never going away when he'd been alive, and he hadn't been wrong there, but now he had a chance to have something other than an utter ruin of a body and he kept getting the foolish hope again and again that maybe this time it would work.
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Unimaginable until he died, anyway, and he found new levels of that word.
"I'll take anything," he says, too quickly to hide the desperation even if he manages to keep his voice mostly level. "Whatever you can do for it... if you can do anything at all, I'll take it and won't be upset it's not more."
He had come to accept these were never going away when he'd been alive, and he hadn't been wrong there, but now he had a chance to have something other than an utter ruin of a body and he kept getting the foolish hope again and again that maybe this time it would work.