"You mean that's after they've laid their glow'n hands on him?" He figured Asher would ignore 'em, probably try to duck away from that kinda healing but-

Some sicknesses sit and dig in the more you try to get 'em out. Those are the ones...

"It ain't the blight." A rare, somber moment now. He's seen that. He knows what that does to a body, how it's kinder to give a man the knife. "but it ain't clear'n up either, is it?"