Anton's first stop after being ejected from the Billion Bloodline building was the hospital. He needed his face looked at properly; the pain was worse than the bruise would show, and the cut across his nose had swelled into a purple ridge by the time he arrived. The doctors did a quick assessment and the news came blunt and clinical: his nose was broken and there were signs his jaw had suffered trauma as well. To fix both properly they recommended surgery.
He would need to be placed under, have the bones reset, and then recover with his jaw wired or immobilized, which would mean fluids and nutrients through an IV for a while, a humiliating dependency for a man who always prided himself on being physically self-sufficient.
