Not great. Healers can't seem to do anything about it, but those plants help. [He's trudging on, refusing to be more of the slow one in the group than he already is.] I been through worse.

[He ranks it about a six on the normal-to-"literally on fire" scale, but her mentioning it does seem to jar it back awake, and he shivers with a sudden chill.

He takes in all the different books, the dictionary and the children's books and everything else. Some of those have to be for reference to the one in front of her, but the children's books stump him.]

I never asked. You got kids at home?