"Okay. In a minute, I'm going to make a small cut on your arm. It'll be the quickest way to check how thin the poison's gotten," he said. And he will just steadfastly refuse to think about the only times he's been drinking blood otherwise in the last year.

"No, I don't get cold. The only time I've been cold was after I had a whole ocean dumped on me and after I had the Samadhi Fire removed," he said, voice definitely more matter of fact and distracted.