It hadn’t occurred to him before this very moment that his dependence on the drink would have changed his body’s relationship to medicine. It makes sense though, doesn’t it? He craved the whiskey - he could crave something strong like laudanum fairly easily too.
“I understand,” he says quietly. It would be a hindrance for him, not a help, and she couldn’t abide that. “I didn’t know I could…replace, as it were, my earlier reliance on the drink with something else. In all honesty I feel like I would have better off not knowing.”
It’s frightened him, far more than the whistling in his lungs has.
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It hadn’t occurred to him before this very moment that his dependence on the drink would have changed his body’s relationship to medicine. It makes sense though, doesn’t it? He craved the whiskey - he could crave something strong like laudanum fairly easily too.
“I understand,” he says quietly. It would be a hindrance for him, not a help, and she couldn’t abide that. “I didn’t know I could…replace, as it were, my earlier reliance on the drink with something else. In all honesty I feel like I would have better off not knowing.”
It’s frightened him, far more than the whistling in his lungs has.