Iron Champion (Legend of the Iron Flower Book 5) by Wong Billy

Author:Wong, Billy [Wong, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2014-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Rose and Finn arrived in Gustrone at night, and enjoyed a romantic dinner in their favorite tavern before heading for home. Upon returning to the tower where they worked and lived, they found that nothing too bad had happened during their leave, though Derrick was understandably overwhelmed by the work of running their recently expanded center without their help. Their friend had thus been even more overjoyed to see them home than usual, and when Rose showed him the scars of her newest mortal (but not for her) wounds, he marveled as always at her awesome resilience.

Even Rose herself was impressed by her own survival, knowing the tremendous damage Julian's serrated sword must have done to her vitals, but she hadn't survived unscathed. Upon trying to feed her children, she found that her left breast, heavily damaged many times including when it'd been split in half and sewn back together last year and more recently during the battles in Terlon, apparently began to fail.

Though it still made milk, it came in less abundance than she'd gotten used to, which upset and scared her. She wanted to feed her kids the natural way, at least when she was home to do it. Fortunately she was a huge woman, and despite her left breast's decreased lactation, managed to fill her babes' bellies with what she had. But she still hoped her breast would eventually recover as well as her mangled parts usually did, for the thought of permanent damage that would truly impair quite frightened her.

It wasn't that she didn't already bear countless scars she understood would never ever go away, and feel terrible pain all the time stemming from wounds she'd survived when they should have killed her dozens of times over. No, she knew she was scarred hideously inside and out, and had grown used to dealing with those old hurts. But though she suffered, she had thus far remained fully functional.

Her piercing headaches didn't harm her ability to think, her rending stomachaches let her eat, she breathed despite her constrictive chest pains... but now, not only did her breast hurt, it wasn't working like it should. Dying in battle was one danger she could accept, but to become a cripple after all she'd done? It was too awful to imagine, and though a failing breast wouldn't hinder her too much in life, it hinted frighteningly at worse possibilities to come and as such was one thing she could hardly take in stride.

She'd long known that no matter how strong she was, a human body wasn't designed to rebound from the kind of damage she often suffered, and she could hardly continue the way she did without someday facing the inevitable consequences. But not so soon! She was only twenty-three, her children newly two after the birthday she had just avoided missing. If her breast was fading now, how long would it be before other, more important things did as well?

Finn heaped upon her medicines to try and help

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