[i] He turns around a lifts up his shirt over his shoulders, and after a few seconds, two marks on his back seem to fade into existence, and what she sees is rather horrific. Two red and irritated sword slashes cross his back in an "X" going from his right hip to his left shoulder, and vice versa. They've not quite scabbed over, as they look rather fresh. They seem deep, and they were made by a blade with a jagged edge, the skin of his back torn up around the marks.[/i]