Face wrinkled into a small grimace and body shifted slightly in repose but Sterling continued to dream. Not that he wanted to, it had been years since he could remember having a pleasant night‘s sleep. Then groan issued forth as he stirred. In partial slumber, he felt as if his scalp had been yanked asunder and then manipulated until flesh’s edges were once again forced to butt close together. Sleep continued now undisturbed until a sharp, stabbing pain caused him to bolt upright in bed. When sword could not be found, fists came to the ready.
“Damnation!” Right arm swung out and made contact with nothing but the surrounding air as something flopped in his face. Curious, he snatched at the needle and suturing thread, which his actions had jerked clean from the doctor’s grip and yanked it, causing another sharp pain to his head.
“What the bloody hell?” he looked about, now fully awake and spied the women and a thin man with bloodied hands and foul looking apron.
“Damnation yourself,” came a thickly accented retort. “Hold still vill you so I can finish sewing up your head. You hafe given yourself a good crack in the skull and you must be still for avile.”
Expression settled into a frown, before Sterling lay back down.
“Bloody surgeons. Ye could have fired one across my bow first,” he grumbled.