"Damn!" Dhugal bay watch girls muttered under his breath, tightening file tourniquet
again and muttering an bay watch girls apology as his patient sucked in breath between his
teeth in pain. Neither he, his assistant, nor bay watch girls his patient seemed to notice
Kelson's bay watch girls presence as he picked up bay watch girls a needle trailing
a length of gut threat.
"Ye must n?? move now, Bertie, if we're tae save yer arm," Dhugal
said, his earlier court accents blurred with the lilt of the highlands now,
as he positioned the
bloody arm bay watch girls to his liking and shifted Jatham's grip.
"Hold him steady as ye can, lad."
As Bertie braced himself bay watch girls and young Jatham clamped down at wrist and
bicep. Kelson touched the squire's shoulder and nodded as he looked up,
startled. Dhugal, too, blinked bay watch girls as he suddenly became aware of Kelson's
presence.
"Why don't you bay watch girls let me take over here, Jatham?" he said to the boy,
smiling and signalling him to move aside. "He's a little big for bay watch girls you to
hold. Go with Baron Jodrell."
As Jodrell and the boy withdrew. Kelson dropped bay watch girls to bay watch girls his knees across
from bay watch girls Dhugal and bay watch girls rinsed his hands in
the basin of clean bay watch girls water bay watch girls near the
patient's head, permitting himself a little smile as Dhugal stared at Mm in
amazement.
"I was beginning to feel useless," Kelson explained. "Besides, it
looked as if young Bertie, here, nearly outweighted you bay watch girls both. Hello,
Bertie," he added, as their patient uncovered his eyes to squint at him
suspiciously.
"Well, then," Dhugal grinned, the lilt of the highlands muted to only
a slight blurr as he shifted to court dialect. "Last I bay watch girls heard, you bay watch girls weren't a
battle surgeon.&bay watch girls quot;
"Last I heard, neither were you," Kelson countered. "I suspect we've
both learned some things in the past few years. What would you like me to
do?"
Dhugal made a grim attempt at a chuckle. "Hold his arm steady, then -
just there," he said, repositioning the arm