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Chapter 157 - Mortal Blood

POV: Aphrodite

Immortality cannot fix everything.

The arm is the worst of it and the worst of it is significant.

I know this through the Direwolf blood before I've finished assessing the visible damage, the blood resonance I've been running since the court providing immediate information about the severity of what the compelled wolf's strike produced and the specific biology of a human body processing that severity without the wolf recovery mechanism.

Kai is conscious. He's at the level of conscious that carries the specific quality of someone who is running everything available to maintain consciousness rather than the level of conscious that represents ordinary alertness, and the difference is visible and the difference matters for what this situation requires.

I put my hands on him the way I put my hands on him in the court.

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