"Shut your mouth," he says quietly, picking up a leather strap. "I'm healing you when we're done here. Just remember that."
That said, Garrett puts the piece of leather between Setsuna's teeth, explaining quietly that having something to bite down on can be grounding. He can spit it out if he needs to, Garrett explains, but it's probably best to keep it in.
Then he walks around behind Setsuna to choose a knife. The sharpest one he can, so it will carve easier and smoother into flesh- that will make for cleaner cuts and better scarring. Less unnecessarily agonizing than something dull. He takes a sharp knife, long but still small enough for precision, and turns to the other man, feeling sick to his stomach.
Nothing for it but to start, then. Garrett places a hand on Setsuna's shoulder as a sort of anchor and sinks the knife into his flesh, carefully carving the shape of large wings over the man's back. He does his best to make them look good, since he knows this will leave a scar. If Setsuna has to walk away from this with scarring, it might as well be something beautiful, instead of a hideous assortment of mutilation.
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That said, Garrett puts the piece of leather between Setsuna's teeth, explaining quietly that having something to bite down on can be grounding. He can spit it out if he needs to, Garrett explains, but it's probably best to keep it in.
Then he walks around behind Setsuna to choose a knife. The sharpest one he can, so it will carve easier and smoother into flesh- that will make for cleaner cuts and better scarring. Less unnecessarily agonizing than something dull. He takes a sharp knife, long but still small enough for precision, and turns to the other man, feeling sick to his stomach.
Nothing for it but to start, then. Garrett places a hand on Setsuna's shoulder as a sort of anchor and sinks the knife into his flesh, carefully carving the shape of large wings over the man's back. He does his best to make them look good, since he knows this will leave a scar. If Setsuna has to walk away from this with scarring, it might as well be something beautiful, instead of a hideous assortment of mutilation.