"You have--" he manages to start before Zan interrupts, and Herbert looks, following the line of his arm to the now pitch-black hallway. "I'm sure it's...some sort of lighting damage." He sounds a little less strained, now that his shirt isn't taut and actively grating on his burns.

That said, he turns right back to Jasper.

"We found a pond in the library with, I assume, some sort of naked water fae in it. She dragged Lapis in with...prehensile seaweed hair--I made a sword and attempted to come to the rescue, but by the time I found where they were located underwater, they. Kissed? And Lapis disappeared--perhaps destabilised, as you said. That's all I know!"