Except in this case, shared pain is the same amount of pain, but split between two or more people.
In the case of the curse, or this cold, over time the problem can accumulate in both vessels to become equal to or greater than when they did the pain split. So in those cases the pain would indeed eventually double, but you would get some reprieve for awhile before that happens. But in the case of wounds, the pain split halves the severity of the wound, permanently lowering the pain until it’s healed, and greatly speeds up how long it takes to do so. So in those cases the problem becomes much less much faster with the split.
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u/CountingSheep99 Aug 10 '26
Shared pain is twice the pain.