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Somehow, Camelot seemed much too small now.

Oliver wasn't sure of when he had first noticed his ability to sense others pain; what had first presented itself as no more than an uncanny knack for picking out the source of injuries and wounds had swiftly grown, moving from that to what he had seen as 'extreme empathy' to something far, far worse. Pain assaulted him everywhere he went, now – not his pain, not at all, but instead the pain of others, of the knights and the servants and the cook when she nicked her finger on a knife. It slipped into his skin the moment he was close enough, setting nerves alight with silver sharpness and rendering his skin apart, over and over and over again.

But it didn't, not really. Whatever it was, whatever curse had been placed upon him to make him feel this, it never affected him physical. In reality, Oliver's body was fine – strong and healthy and looking just the same as ever, save for the scratches hidden under his clothes where he had tried to claw broken bones out of his skin. But mentally, he knew he was slowly shattering at the edges, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

On top of that, the never ended sensation left him distracted, much as he tried to just focus past the pain and keep on working. Treating people, finding their injuries and resetting their bones became both easier and harder than ever – easier because he could find them so, so much quicker than ever before, and harder because it wasn't just empathy making him feel their pain now. And even once their pain faded there was always the background tingling, chasing over his skin and making him lose focus of where he was going, or who he was walking into.

So it was with his mind lingering around the hairline fracture he could feel in his right arm that he bumped into Morgana, causing him to wince as every headache and subtle pain her brain suffered from was instantly transferred to him.

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