Chapter 8 - Advancements31st Unimont, 308 (Matersday)
“Ouch!”
Healer Phineas Gage paused his medical ministrations momentarily at the verbal protest. His patient so rarely vocalized pain during procedures, he acknowledged such as a request to stop.
Axandra Saugray, the most prominent patient of Healer Gage, sucked in a noisy breath through her teeth as the tweezers removing used gauze struck a sensitive nerve on the pale underside of her right arm.
“That causes you pain?” Gage questioned. Many of the nerves in that region of her scorched arm had been deemed non-functional, all but destroyed by near incineration of the surrounding muscle tissue.
“Very much so,” Axandra confirmed. Having become accustomed to seeing the open wound, which exposed muscle, tendon, and bone within her now di
