Oooh if no one has asked yet—five times will Laurence was in pain?
A likely request from a Temeraire enjoyer- this is a 5+1 and being "in pain" isn't quite accurate, because it's actually "fives times Will Laurence's previous injuries and experiences caused him to experience disability after his retirement and he refused to let anyone help him and one time he did" but that's not as snappy as "in pain" so. What can you do.
“William Laurence, if you will not sit down, I will have Temeraire carry you off myself!” It was unusual enough to hear at Tharkay a volume that could be considered anything other than sardonic; to hear him in a true and fine temper was exceedingly rare. His voice raised to the point of yelling might have been enough to sit Laurence back down on its own, had Laurence’s own temper not been heightened at the pain radiating in his leg and at the insistence that he could not retrieve the case of maps which was just out of reach for Tharkay but perfectly within his own. “It will take me only a moment, I promise I am- ah-” His leg, already weakened from the cold and the pain and his own inattention, gave out. For one moment, Will thought that he would sprawl across the hard wood floor of Tharkay’s study- but no, there was Tenzing, who had fairly lunged to arrest Will’s collapse. For all that his hands were gentle and secure, though, his face was set into a stony, livid silence. Laurence swallowed and righted himself, spilling into the chair he had only recently vacated. He spread his hands in an attempt at supplication, at appeasement. “Tenzing…” “Don’t.”
