He looks over his brother's lingering wounds another time, then glances away.

"O-of course!" He says, with the intensity of saying so to make it so. "He's already woken up once... so that's the worst case scenario out of the picture! Now the picture is just... how long it'll take to heal all those bruises. And, well..."

His iron burns, his bruises, and most of all his mental state, which had already been Not Great, but better than a couple months before. Now it must be more than worse than then.