"Oh yes, impeccable aim." I say, just barely rolling my eyes. He is so overwhelmingly ridiculous.

I'm not sure why I still care about him. At all.

But I do.

"No, but I am more protected than you are, entering Helheim without any armor."

I continue tending to him, doing my best to find the exact lines of his wound through his hair. I feel it is actually a bit more serious than he estimates.

"Had to be checked, yes. But you could have called me into do so, instead of risking yourself."

I want to strangle him, and want t protect him in equal measure.

I begin tending properly to his wound.

"What would have happened to you if that scientist had not called me?"