The CT scan results, or, I guess intramural soccer is out.

I guess intramural soccer is out.

The CT scan results: WG has a fractured sessamoid. Oh.

It's a soccer player's injury (though he probably got it at work). The fracture hasn't gone all the way through the bone which is why it wasn't clear on the X-ray. It looks like a knife cut across the base of the bone.

The little bone's about the size of a grape or maybe your thumbnail, on the ball of your foot right before the big toe. It's small, but important, because it's a flexor joint with the tendon of the big toe stretched across it.

The tendon kept pushing and sawing over the break which is why -- ow, ow, ow -- it hurt.

The tissue around the tendon had been tenderized and inflamed after months of walking on the fractured bone. Now that he's been off of it for two weeks, the inflammation has gone down.

Well. Kids break bones all the time. They heal. It'll just be a little slower for WG because he's not 12 anymore and it's an extremity.

The state of the fic.

The state of the fic.

Wrote the final scene of the epilogue last weekend. On Tuesday I wrote another scene that was supposed to be its own separate piece, but it melded with the one before it perfectly.

Last night I started writing John's final skate.

Out Of Bounds is rolling forward again, slowly, like a rusted train, but it's moving.

Worlds! And dithering, so much dithering

Eeee! The men's World Championship is on in five minutes!

Wrote the warm-up to John's short program for Out Of Bounds. Now I need to write his actual short program (or this other scene that's prodding at me). I'm wondering if I should include more of the other skaters or just focus primarily on John's performance.

Any experienced fic writers out there who'd like to do a little hand-holding? I'm dithering and second-guessing myself about these last few scattered scenes like you wouldn't believe. I need someone to tell me, "No, Icarus, that's a bad idea" or "Yes, Icarus, you should write more about the other skaters" and unfortunately my betas are busy right now.


ETA: Okay, this is just bizarre. I wrote a half hour ago that the warm up music is "Born to be Wild." The music being played for Worlds? Guess. Okay, it gets used a lot for figure skating, who knows why.

ETA2: Wow, what a night. What tremendous skating from the last group especially. More tomorrow after it has sunk in.

Not considering a Merlin figure skating AU, oh no.

I'm not saying that I've considered writing a Merlin figure skating AU where Arthur and Merlin are competitors. But watching Anton Kovalevski skate...

... makes such thoughts inevitable.

And tonight at Worlds his hair was even longer and, well, you picture it.