While he can be that stubborn - and has in fact pretended not to be all that hurt more than once - this time he means what he says. The last thing he wants is to wind up spending more time in the healers tents than he has to.

Luckily, the after-effects that come with shooting out a single burst of energy from his hand are manageable, even in his current condition. An aching hand, feeling faintly drained...he's used to that. So long as he doesn't have to repeat the trick all that often, he'll deal, although there's something a touch more tired in his eyes as he looks back at her.

"Same stuff as that comes out of these marks when we close the rifts, as far as anyone knows, only it can hurt things. It- it's like someone's take one of those laser gun things and stuck it in my hand, only I've no idea what I need to do to get it to work reliably."