Strange lets out one more inaudible grumble about the whole thing, before he relents and starts taking off his shirt. Which is an ordeal and a half as it involves taking off the coat and then the vest. Lambert said just lift the shirt up so he's not taking off the cravat just yet. Strange is only unbuttoning the shirt a certain amount so that Lambert can actually look at his ribs.
And hot damn does this man have absolutely nothing in the way of 'muscles' or 'major scars'. There are a few small scars because he fought in the peninsula, he's not coming out of that completely unscathed, but aside from the fuckton of bruises, this is the stomach of a skinny man who's never worked a goddamn day of manual labor in his life.
He's not self-conscious, per se, but it is a bit ridiculous how poncey this makes him look compared to Lambert and Childermass. "Is this good enough?"
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And hot damn does this man have absolutely nothing in the way of 'muscles' or 'major scars'. There are a few small scars because he fought in the peninsula, he's not coming out of that completely unscathed, but aside from the fuckton of bruises, this is the stomach of a skinny man who's never worked a goddamn day of manual labor in his life.
He's not self-conscious, per se, but it is a bit ridiculous how poncey this makes him look compared to Lambert and Childermass. "Is this good enough?"