"You feel numb, Lord!" She laughed, correcting him. "And soon you will feel tugging." As she stitched him, and late,r far later there would be pain because no one could ever judge when numbweed wore off. It varied between injury and between person.

"If you attempt to press your 'feeling better' I shall have your dragon sit on you...or rather sit upon you myself until your dragon returns for his own tending!"