"That sounds super uncomfortable."

"For you maybe. So you drunk the Elixir?"

"They get all rubby and clingy and itchy if they're wet, I can't move inside them. And yeah I did."

"What'd it feel like?"

"First like I could do anything. Then like nothing."

"Are your old powers still working?"

Marble demonstration.

"Cool! I was kinda worried you'd get the power of nothing."

"That'd be a cool power! Making things into nothing, making nothing into things!"

"Can you make things into nothing? That you didn't already make?"

"No."

"Be kinda unfair if you could."

"It's already pretty unfair."

"There's some board games in the corner. You wanna play them for a while?"

"Yeah!"

He can pretty much stick around till she gets sleepy. A nurse brings them some food once or twice.

She feels hungrier than normal. Which is odd.

And then she should go sleep.

When she wakes up, she'll be feeling dreadful in every way.

He. He is in fact feeling dreadful in every way.

"Aaaauuuuuggghhhhh," he moans as soon as he wakes up.

There's a call button he can use.

Yes he will use this.

A nurse is there in about a minute. "I gather the sucky part is setting in?" he asks.

"Yeeeeees make it stoooooop"

"I can't quite manage that, but I can increase your painkiller dosage. Won't do much, but it'll help you sleep through more of it." He does so. 

His perception of time over the next few days won't be great, even putting aside the mood swings and hallucinations. 

Nope. Not fun at all. Sadde also doesn't usually change gender in the middle of the day but there you have it why won't their ducking brain just decide on something already why does this suck so much why why why whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy