H is hand? ----- Her inquiry had prompted the adolescent to raise both his extremities semi-skyward, aligning them accurately towards his countenance's observable range, to grant optics the availability to scrutinize their conditions. His left one, manufactured with defective consequences, was certainly not immaculate. Albeit its state, reddened in dissimilar localities, was not as excessive, a disapproving indication was ostensibly written in her chiding gaze, as she made it out to be. ----------- Its skin was inhabited by countless splinters; from him working with numerous quantities of wood during twilight hours as a gesture of gratitude for her hospitality, he reckons. - He hadn't felt any of it, his left nerves too numbed to discern pain. His attention is averted from her person as he expires a thought through verbalization. " -- Clearly, I failed to be cautious last night while I was chopping some firewood. " He has always been a reckless youth of action.