bone ground against bone with no buffer. The
lady sighed. “The first is the hardest. It would
require me to completely restructure your foot
and ankle. Meaning, I would have to break
apart the bone, take out the parts that healed
or fused incorrectly, and then regrow them.
You could not walk while I did it, and even
with the help I could give you for the pain, the
recovery would be agonizing.” There was no
way around that truth. “I’d need three weeks
to take apart your bones and put them back
together, but you’d need at least a month of
resting and learning to walk on it again.”
Elide’s face had gone pale. “And the other
option?”
“The other option would be to not do the
healing, but to give you salve—like the one
you said Lorcan gave you—to help with the
aches. But I will warn you: the pain will never
entirely leave you. With the way your bones
lily
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