[Yuan is profoundly, almost pathetically grateful for that little bit of courtesy, such as it is. He lowers himself back down, grimacing all the while and still refusing to ask for help, and when he's mostly horizontal again he closes his eyes for a moment, thinking.]

[Why did Kratos have to remember that question now.]

I did.

[...he's going to have to talk about it eventually. The injury and the sickness are terrible for a negotiating position, but it isn't as though he had much of one of those in the first place.]

I wondered what the attack changed, if anything.

[Of course it's going to be something.]