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It had taken Tarik years to get used to the aftermath of a fight being this painless. As a Corporate, split lips and bloody knuckles were hastily patched. Broken ribs could be coaxed out of hitching with every breath, but that kind of premium time in the MedSystem would only up his debts. Med tabs masked aches and dulled the throbbing of tweaked muscles, but they were rationed.
Peri, on the other hand, never rationed anything.
Not med tabs, not time in the MedSystem or power spent on complicated procedures. No care was ever withheld. And Tarik never went without.