It was nearly noon, and Osmond was in his room. The healer was not always going to be around, and this time, he had instructed him on how to change his bandages. His fingers twitched and pain ran over his shoulders. Pink flesh lined in four neat stripes below the bandage, with skin that looked like balloons surrounding them. "When I get my chants," he flinched when he applied ointment over them. "I am going to char his hands, or maybe slice them with water. Whatever it is, I am going to hurt him."
Chadwick's taunts and his reliance on the elements increased after Riley went away. "Your green-haired sitter is not with you now," Chadwick grinned the last time they fought. There was a certain cruelty in those ruby eyes when he grabbed Osmond, and he savored the fire when he released it.