BARBARIAN: The Mad Alpha Is My Mate.
He touched his fingers to his own face on reflex and they came away red—blood, running steady from his nose, and when he swallowed he tasted copper and realized it was coming from somewhere deeper too, a thin trickle he could feel sliding warm from one ear.
"Caierre—" Alvar's voice, sharp with panic, hands already on his face, tilting his head back, thumb swiping uselessly at the blood like he could stop it by force of will alone. "Caierre, look at me, you're bleeding, you're—"
"I'm fine," Caierre managed, though his own voice sounded strange and far away to him, muffled, like he was still half in the memory.
"You are not fine, there is blood coming out of your *ears*—"
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