[Unless healing artes involve the caster looking miserable as everyone around has to listen to the distinct crunch and squelch of tissues putting themselves back together - then yeah, it's entirely involuntary.
Natsuno nods weakly when Jade all but declares he'll get the offending metal out, face set in a similar grim blankness. The shiki's out of the bag, so to speak, and there's no reason to draw it out because of pride and teenage attitude. He closes his eyes when Jade starts counting, not wanting to look at it. Don't scream, don't scream, don't -
Yeah right, of course he screams. This is the worst pain he felt in his life (well, physical at least). Once the metal is removed there's yet another flow of fresh blood that stops as quickly as it starts, the wound already starting to close.
Natsuno is already sitting up, trying to draw enough breath to talk. He needs to get up, needs to go - ]
Thanks -
[He coughs, spitting something small and round into his uninjured hand.
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Natsuno nods weakly when Jade all but declares he'll get the offending metal out, face set in a similar grim blankness. The shiki's out of the bag, so to speak, and there's no reason to draw it out because of pride and teenage attitude. He closes his eyes when Jade starts counting, not wanting to look at it. Don't scream, don't scream, don't -
Yeah right, of course he screams. This is the worst pain he felt in his life (well, physical at least). Once the metal is removed there's yet another flow of fresh blood that stops as quickly as it starts, the wound already starting to close.
Natsuno is already sitting up, trying to draw enough breath to talk. He needs to get up, needs to go - ]
Thanks -
[He coughs, spitting something small and round into his uninjured hand.
A metal nut.]