I can smoke now. [ Which she tries to demonstrate by taking a drag from the cigarette — and erupting into a hacking cough reminiscent of her former hacking coughs. She holds out the offending item back to him, laughing once she's able to breathe again. ] Okay, so can still die by asphyxia...
[ Her unintended mention of death quickly sobers her up, and she glances at him with worry. ]
Medical cleared you?
[ She'd looked him over on the way back to camp and had been most concerned about the onset of infection. Yet he seems to be fine. The bruises that she can see have faded, the wounds healing. She doesn't like it. She doesn't like what it might mean, what the enemy could've done to him on that table. ]
no subject
[ Her unintended mention of death quickly sobers her up, and she glances at him with worry. ]
Medical cleared you?
[ She'd looked him over on the way back to camp and had been most concerned about the onset of infection. Yet he seems to be fine. The bruises that she can see have faded, the wounds healing. She doesn't like it. She doesn't like what it might mean, what the enemy could've done to him on that table. ]