Snapping your humerus in the Wisewood is survivable if your landlady keeps crustins-me-ducktee to hand - a painkiller pressed with the cheerfulness of someone who has never specified its contents and does not intend to. She said not to drink alcohol with it. I treated this as general wellness advice rather than a specific contraindication, which I cannot fully recommend.
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Hellsborough has no plaster casts. When I broke my arm in the Wisewood — the mat of leaves beneath me simply slid back, clean as marble, bringing me down hard enough to snap the humerus in two — my landlady fitted a sling and dosed me with something she called crustins-me-ducktee. Combining it with several beers produces dreams that remain vivid several weeks later.
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