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       Adjustments (workshop)
       By: Amaris Date: March 30, 2018, 6:59 pm
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       Thomas had set off for the night hours ago and the house had
       long since shifted into night mode. Only a cook would wake
       occasionally to turn meat or stoke the fire it roasted over. The
       smell sickened her so she hid away downstairs. She looked in on
       Odd ...asleep on his cot she could not see if Gavri'el had done
       more work since she last checked in on his progress. She made
       her way to the workshop to pore over the books there and see if
       she could find something of interest to hold her until Thomas'
       return after Lauds.
       It took a while but she found the manuscript detailing tendons
       and how they work in concert with their specific muscles. She
       looked it over as she plotted out a lengthening of the ones in
       her shoulders. To make it work as she wanted she would have to
       loosen the tendons attached to her scapula and possibly her
       clavicles, and beforehand she would have to lengthen the origin
       and insertion of the muscles surrounding the joints. But first
       she would have to work at her elbows to make them flex and be
       properly strong enough to work behind her own back.
       The work on her arms took a bit longer than she expected as she
       was forced to adjust her wrists as well. At this point she was
       left being able to fold her hands in prayer between her scapula
       as she could at her sternum. She spent a few minutes testing the
       strength and accuracy of these new adjustments. Satisfied she
       had done nothing to weaken her normal muscle strength or flexion
       she sat to make even more modifications to her shoulder plans.
       As she sketched, she realized she may have to reshape the
       scapula themselves to allow for the them to move closer together
       as she drew her arms behind her body...she calculated the shape
       and positions on the paper...
       The bells for Lauds were ringing in the distance before she
       expected. Looking around she put away the book and her notes for
       tomorrow night and began to clean the blood and bits from the
       floor where she had worked. She tested her new adjustments again
       by sweeping the floor behind her back. The motion was there but
       the lack of sight behind her was troublesome for a action like
       sweeping. She tossed the bits in a bin then used the water from
       the barrel to splash water on the floor, rinsing the blood into
       the trough and away. She put the bucket  away as she heard
       Phobos and Deimos at the gate ... a sure sign that Thomas was
       not far behind. Tomorrow she would work on her shoulders ... for
       now she pulled her dress back on and went to the garden to greet
       her boys ...
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