Exercise patience, and be willing to speak as to what's been happening. You may need to bear significant impugnments of your character.

[He reaches around Kratos again and again, ignoring the closeness and the lack of clothing by dint of sheer will and more important things to do. The binding is firm and careful.]

[The bruises are none of them pretty colors. Not unusual, with bruises, but worrying nevertheless.]

I'd hope not, however. Is anything apart from your ribs paining you?