"Well... No, not really." He replied on the subject of dissecting a hand. "I usually eat the fingers too fast to really take a peek inside-" he paused suddenly and widened his eyes when he realized what he'd said. "...But uhh, that was more or less my plan, yeah. I was going to take a look at my fingers, but yours might be better considering I need a reference for your fingers..." With a nod, he accepted the offer, then collected the elf's other wrist and set it on the table with a cautionary glance upward.
After the reassurance that necromancy was indeed capable of giving him the fingers he wanted, Arkash brought himself closer to the elf and ran his hand up the length of the man's forearm at pressed his cheek to the elf's bicep in a display of affection. "I'll fix it quickly, just hold on, alright?"
While Degare being ready to subject himself to dissection didn't say much about his desperation on a normal day, the context in their current situation did strain the pull of his lips and the glare of his eyes with some level of worry; he had to get it right, no matter the cost. "Alright..." he said as he lifted his cheek from the taller man's bicep, then retrieved his scalpel. "I'm going to partially deglove you, take a look inside, then close you back up, okay?" He explained as he took control of the man's left hand, and lowered his upper body a little to get a closer look at the anatomy. He folded the scalpel against his hand while he felt along the length of the digit with a pinch of his thumb and index finger, then furrowed his brow.
"The composition is different," Arkash surmised. "Your usual fingers are a lot umm... Squishier, for lack of a better word. I might have just used too much muscle?" he thought for a moment, then furrowed his brow before he shook his head. "I don't know. I'll need to see to be sure... So, hold still," he warned with a glance upward, then pinched the middle finger carefully. He assumed full control of the hand as he turned it over, then pressed the back to the table to keep it in place. A firm grasp on the scalpel saw him steady the blade, then lower it to the fingertip before he pushed it through by a precise few millimeters, barely scraping the bone.
With ease and plentiful discomfort to the subject, Arkash dragged the blade down the length of his digit while he continuously hardened whatever blood seeped through his ruptured blood vessels, and stopped about halfway along the digit. Finally, he set the scalpel down, then looked up at the man before he opened the skin and gently pulled it back to unveil the distal phalange and the condyloid joint that attached it to the middle phalange. There, he tilted his head and furrowed his brow. "...Well that's weird, I need to open it up a bit further, okay? I'm almost done," he assured as he recollected the scalpel, and extended his incision, all the way to the start of the metacarpals, where he further degloved the middle finger with a gentle pull of his skin. Degare would, no doubt, be in a lot of pain.
"...There's no muscle here," Arkash discovered. "It's just... It's all tendons and fat, there's no muscle in your fingers, it's-"
Arkash's eyes widened as realization struck him. There was a time, recently, where Arkash had come to realize that the strength of his grip rested in his forearms, as any attempt to strain the muscles in his hand saw his forearm ache as a result of his training. The reason, he realized, was because the tendons in the hand extended all the way up into the forearm, where the muscles that cased the radius and ulna somehow pull on the tendons as an extension of the strength that the forearm muscle provided.
"...It makes sense...!" Arkash continued, eyes wide in his discovery. "I know what the problem is; I know where I went wrong," he began to explain as he re-applied the Veir's skin. "I put muscle in your fingers instead of making a sheath with the tendons, but that just gets too tight when they tense; which is why you can't move them properly," he explained with a turn of his hand as he collected the Grafting Neeedle, and sewed up the skin to seamlessly shut it.
Once he set the needle down, Arkash clasped his hands together and looked up at the elf. "I can either make some new fingers from scratch or flay the ones you have on right now; it's about the same amount of work either way." Arkash assured with a nod of his head. "Which would you prefer? Fresh fingers or flayed fingers?"
After the reassurance that necromancy was indeed capable of giving him the fingers he wanted, Arkash brought himself closer to the elf and ran his hand up the length of the man's forearm at pressed his cheek to the elf's bicep in a display of affection. "I'll fix it quickly, just hold on, alright?"
While Degare being ready to subject himself to dissection didn't say much about his desperation on a normal day, the context in their current situation did strain the pull of his lips and the glare of his eyes with some level of worry; he had to get it right, no matter the cost. "Alright..." he said as he lifted his cheek from the taller man's bicep, then retrieved his scalpel. "I'm going to partially deglove you, take a look inside, then close you back up, okay?" He explained as he took control of the man's left hand, and lowered his upper body a little to get a closer look at the anatomy. He folded the scalpel against his hand while he felt along the length of the digit with a pinch of his thumb and index finger, then furrowed his brow.
"The composition is different," Arkash surmised. "Your usual fingers are a lot umm... Squishier, for lack of a better word. I might have just used too much muscle?" he thought for a moment, then furrowed his brow before he shook his head. "I don't know. I'll need to see to be sure... So, hold still," he warned with a glance upward, then pinched the middle finger carefully. He assumed full control of the hand as he turned it over, then pressed the back to the table to keep it in place. A firm grasp on the scalpel saw him steady the blade, then lower it to the fingertip before he pushed it through by a precise few millimeters, barely scraping the bone.
With ease and plentiful discomfort to the subject, Arkash dragged the blade down the length of his digit while he continuously hardened whatever blood seeped through his ruptured blood vessels, and stopped about halfway along the digit. Finally, he set the scalpel down, then looked up at the man before he opened the skin and gently pulled it back to unveil the distal phalange and the condyloid joint that attached it to the middle phalange. There, he tilted his head and furrowed his brow. "...Well that's weird, I need to open it up a bit further, okay? I'm almost done," he assured as he recollected the scalpel, and extended his incision, all the way to the start of the metacarpals, where he further degloved the middle finger with a gentle pull of his skin. Degare would, no doubt, be in a lot of pain.
"...There's no muscle here," Arkash discovered. "It's just... It's all tendons and fat, there's no muscle in your fingers, it's-"
Arkash's eyes widened as realization struck him. There was a time, recently, where Arkash had come to realize that the strength of his grip rested in his forearms, as any attempt to strain the muscles in his hand saw his forearm ache as a result of his training. The reason, he realized, was because the tendons in the hand extended all the way up into the forearm, where the muscles that cased the radius and ulna somehow pull on the tendons as an extension of the strength that the forearm muscle provided.
"...It makes sense...!" Arkash continued, eyes wide in his discovery. "I know what the problem is; I know where I went wrong," he began to explain as he re-applied the Veir's skin. "I put muscle in your fingers instead of making a sheath with the tendons, but that just gets too tight when they tense; which is why you can't move them properly," he explained with a turn of his hand as he collected the Grafting Neeedle, and sewed up the skin to seamlessly shut it.
Once he set the needle down, Arkash clasped his hands together and looked up at the elf. "I can either make some new fingers from scratch or flay the ones you have on right now; it's about the same amount of work either way." Arkash assured with a nod of his head. "Which would you prefer? Fresh fingers or flayed fingers?"
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