[from here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/549786.html?view=44941978#t44941978)]

Despite his best efforts, Leon could tell that the wounds on his back had opened up again--the cuts from that bird thing were deep, and the stitches the nurses put in hadn't been intended to hold up under this kind of exertion. But he needed that sword, so Leon just muttered to himself and kept dragging his sack of metal along.