The two recovery days sat in the schedule where Yenna had written them, between the sixth bout and the seventh. A treatment course was attached to each morning, and neither of them mentioned the ring apron for the whole of the first day.
The treatment ran four hours of nerve stimulation across a bench with his right forearm strapped flat. Yenna managed it herself rather than paying a hall practitioner, because a practitioner writes a report and a report reaches the Association.
Nerve stimulation is a slow business with nothing dramatic about it at any point. A current goes through the graft line at intervals, the hand answers or fails to answer, and somebody writes the result in a column.
"Close the hand," she said at the second hour, "not for me, for the count, and stop at four if the fourth one hurts."
