... Getting shot. I'll take it, too; better than most of the ways someone can get their asses killed, right? Getting crushed under a bus, for example.

[He just smiles at her faintly, nearly entirely submerged in this momentary relief.]

It'll... pass sooner or later. I'll see what happens when I get to that. Though, sedation sounds really nice. Unless you trick me into being high as a kite for some journal recordings.