[Everything up until when Irahl had finally been able to drag himself into the shower is a head-pounding, body-aching, light-sensitive blur. Gathering up the wreckage of themselves and their belongings and limping back to the ship had been one of the most laborious efforts he'd had to endure in recent memory. He had no idea how many questions from Vincent he had or had not answered, but he's sure that he hadn't used any real words to do so. A single-minded slog that finally ends with him closing himself away and retreating under some ice-cold water for a while.
He stays in there until his body doesn't hurt quite so badly anymore, everything in his head quiets down, and he feels clean again.
It takes a while.
Afterward, he slaps gauze on the bare minimum of wounds he can get away with attending to, wads up his dirty clothes to be abandoned on the washing machine, and drags himself to the bunk. Normally, he makes a habit of hanging around in more clothing, but between the fact that the vast majority of his clothes are now out of commission, and the assortment of injuries currently covering his body, Irahl is in his Atroma-brand tank top and boxers when he collapses--very carefully--into bed.
And there he intends to stay, sprawled out in whatever way hurts the least, maybe for the rest of his life.]
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He stays in there until his body doesn't hurt quite so badly anymore, everything in his head quiets down, and he feels clean again.
It takes a while.
Afterward, he slaps gauze on the bare minimum of wounds he can get away with attending to, wads up his dirty clothes to be abandoned on the washing machine, and drags himself to the bunk. Normally, he makes a habit of hanging around in more clothing, but between the fact that the vast majority of his clothes are now out of commission, and the assortment of injuries currently covering his body, Irahl is in his Atroma-brand tank top and boxers when he collapses--very carefully--into bed.
And there he intends to stay, sprawled out in whatever way hurts the least, maybe for the rest of his life.]