V's acquiescence goes a long way to mollifying him, and Alec finally makes more of an effort to get his own attitude under control as well.
Still, he isn't 100% sure how to retract the blade again and he doesn't want to look stupid struggling with it, so he just flips the knife around until he's got the flat of the blade pinched between his fingers. He trades it handle-first into V's free hand at the same time that he tugs the sliced up one close enough to get to work. He pulls the bandages tight, winding the cloth around itself at first to pin it in place, and then progressing methodically up the palm, over both the cut and the strange markings there. His fingers are heavily calloused—from the bow and swords and everything else—and he's not really gentle, exactly, but hopefully the fact that he works efficiently and without making a fuss is enough to compensate for that.
Admittedly, he's mostly just using bandaging V as an excuse not to start down a new spiral based around the fact that the ward or spell or whatever has clearly been broken, but his runes are still dormant and nothing feels right. "What normally happens when you do... this?" He'd seemed so confident! Alec is still baffled.
hdu alec would never be so petty (...he would)
Still, he isn't 100% sure how to retract the blade again and he doesn't want to look stupid struggling with it, so he just flips the knife around until he's got the flat of the blade pinched between his fingers. He trades it handle-first into V's free hand at the same time that he tugs the sliced up one close enough to get to work. He pulls the bandages tight, winding the cloth around itself at first to pin it in place, and then progressing methodically up the palm, over both the cut and the strange markings there. His fingers are heavily calloused—from the bow and swords and everything else—and he's not really gentle, exactly, but hopefully the fact that he works efficiently and without making a fuss is enough to compensate for that.
Admittedly, he's mostly just using bandaging V as an excuse not to start down a new spiral based around the fact that the ward or spell or whatever has clearly been broken, but his runes are still dormant and nothing feels right. "What normally happens when you do... this?" He'd seemed so confident! Alec is still baffled.