It was a good thing he elected not to lecture her; it would have been one of the few things that would have gotten her bolting back upright out of spite. Instead, she just blinked ash out of her eyelashes, and retorted, "It's not that bad."

Well, despite the instant relief as she felt her body sluggishly responding to the healing. Ah, she'd actually been pretty beat up, huh... She winced as what was probably a fractured rib shifted in the magic's flow, and stopped objecting. "How's the ritual?"