[So he did. Gongenzaka considers this in silence, looking to the tea kettle as he takes it and starts pouring. He managed to hold back once, twice...long enough that it wasn't until he was in the towers that he needed to eat, even.

And on Sherlock's part...] ....You yourself... ...you stayed alive, even while laying a mark upon me.

...That is a show of remarkable strength, and more importantly...remarkable courage, Sherlock.