Hmm... [an annoyingly long pause--- but the fight goes out of him.] M' fine.
[not fine. getting better, though, if slowly. bones feel hollowed and chest like a wet cardboard box ready to collapse into itself, but with the fever receded and eyes only a tad puffy, it was certainly better now than three hours ago.]
You fine?
[getting better didn't make it safe or good or--- anything particularly positive, but as their bantering (to put it kindly) before proved, that wasn't precisely needed to let off steam.]
[at least they were alive and felt like they'd stay alive. honestly, that-- could be enough.]
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[not fine. getting better, though, if slowly. bones feel hollowed and chest like a wet cardboard box ready to collapse into itself, but with the fever receded and eyes only a tad puffy, it was certainly better now than three hours ago.]
You fine?
[getting better didn't make it safe or good or--- anything particularly positive, but as their bantering (to put it kindly) before proved, that wasn't precisely needed to let off steam.]
[at least they were alive and felt like they'd stay alive. honestly, that-- could be enough.]