They might be less manageable much sooner at this rate. The weather's starting to turn unpredictable, but if you've been busy indoors, I suppose you wouldn't know that.

[ which is why, for all his necromantic skill at manipulating flesh and bone, he still has an awful-looking wound that stubbornly refuses to heal. ]

As much as I hate to ask, if you can spare a roll of gauze or some cloth, that might be helpful in the meantime.

[ he'll purge this later and buy more time, so he's not overly concerned, but his hand trembles despite his efforts to make it stop; it's been a very long time since john has had to experience physical pain he couldn't just switch off. ]