"I'll see how much I care," he says, giving in and taking another drink from that bottle. Yet he is trying to be careful, thinking about how bad things have hurt since he came up out of that fountain, and how much he isn't ready to run out and be back in that same situation. Maybe he can nurse it along so that it doesn't get too bad. At least for a while.

"Because you like me," he says, tones flat though so there's a chance that he doesn't believe that. Not in the way that those words might imply.