[He can’t help but smile a little. The joke lands and he laughs softly.] You know he’d ask how you managed to convince me to bother with breaks. Then offer to buy you lunch to celebrate.

[He hasn’t been terrible about pacing himself. He does it quite well. The issue is he so rarely steps away from duty and what needs done. Or as he was told, ‘you don’t give yourself time to breathe’. He never saw the point in that when his time to live had been.

He cuts the thought off and shifts his feet to stabilize himself.]

Speaking of that farm. Are you enjoying it? But yes for a while I’ll be the cat of my team. For at least a week according to the healers art the Center.