"After a result like that, I'm not sure if the potential benefit outweighs the risk."

He pulls a face. "Maybe it'll fix my hand? Because I would really hate to be stuck like this," he says. "Fuck."

"I won't stop you. I can cauterize as often as needed, but my supply of kolto is sharply limited."

"I'll live," he says, gritting his teeth. "Probably."

And he goes for the purple crystal.

Suddenly, he is: lying on the ground, looking hollowly into the distance.

His keriol jumps at him – it was waiting a few feet away from him while he tapped the crystal, but now it seems to just bury itself against him.

"… He doesn't look particularly okay," says Victoria to Tyler.

"No," he responds, in English.

...She attempts to get a sense of his mental state through the Force.

How is 'still present'? That's not quite all that can be said for it, but… it's approximately accurate.

He continues to look into the distance, really quite hollowly.

Can't cauterize this. Well, she could, but that would be quite drastic and likely to be taken the wrong way by the others.

The keriol headbutts him in the face, lightly. Gets no response.

Tries it a bit harder. … Still gets no response.

Then it just sort of sits, draped across his shoulders and peering down at him, hoping for– well, for some sign of life.

There's still breathing?

That's… that's about it, though.

Wonderful.

… After a couple of moments, someone steps out from behind a green crystal.

He looks rather like Thario. Even has a keriol wrapped around his shoulders.

"...and you are?"

"Blue," he says. "Um, I'm not sure how he's… um, going to cope with things? He's not been doing much."

Victoria frowns, looking at him and then Thario, then looks at her watch.

… Then she's gone, just like that.

Must have seen something shiny and vertiginous.

"What do you mean?"

"He's been like that for a while," he says. "I'm not sure how long it's been for you guys?"

"Only a minute or two. Where'd you come from?"

"Him," he says, nodding at Thario. "Apparently a stupid light magic is not all he had."

"How long's it been for you?"

"… Couple of weeks? Something like that."

Translates as 'something like twenty days'.

"That's some fairly extreme dilation."