[Rather than being in pain? He's got pain, aches and soreness laid in from a secondary effect even before his skin started splitting earlier today. Even with the stitches holding the splits closed, it still hurts, still pulls, and isn't it just so fucking funny all of a sudden that Al has none of it, none of it at all, to deal with?]
private; (cw: body horror, simulated injury)
it means youre LUCKY
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HEE HEE
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