Ah yes...'alive,' the most oft-used measure of perfect health, he said not without a sense of irony, [ don mutters, already reaching to unlatch leonardo's belt and slide it out of the way so he can check leo's plastron. leo was, true to form, vague on the details of what happened in the prison realm so there could be all manner of wounds hiding beneath that shell.
there had been blood on his mouth. there could be internal bleeding. there could be a punctured lung, ruptured organs, blood pooling beneath skin or beneath shell and donnie wouldn't be able to-
donatello shakes his head, shakes out his arms with an impatient scowl. focus.
there are small scratches and faint surface spiderweb cracks along leo's plastron. donatello starts there, gently tracing and applying faint pressure to check for shifting material beneath. ]
Tell me what happened, [ he demands quietly, eyes shifting to leo's briefly, then to their other brothers before coming back. too quiet for raph and mikey to hear, but splinter's tail tightens ever so slightly. ]
no subject
there had been blood on his mouth. there could be internal bleeding. there could be a punctured lung, ruptured organs, blood pooling beneath skin or beneath shell and donnie wouldn't be able to-
donatello shakes his head, shakes out his arms with an impatient scowl. focus.
there are small scratches and faint surface spiderweb cracks along leo's plastron. donatello starts there, gently tracing and applying faint pressure to check for shifting material beneath. ]
Tell me what happened, [ he demands quietly, eyes shifting to leo's briefly, then to their other brothers before coming back. too quiet for raph and mikey to hear, but splinter's tail tightens ever so slightly. ]