Yes? says his mind. It's not a very loud yes. He has no idea if that helps somebody like him.
No, Chosen, say his verbal reflexes, and something else inside him shuts it down because if he actually says that then a week of not-rest will happen to him.
Oh, wait. She didn't say that he could have it, just to ask if he wanted it. So she'll laugh at him if he says yes and then say he can't have it. That makes a sort of sense, if she wants him to hurt that way, he should give his hurting to her, and not make her go looking for it. It seems like a safe way to be hurt, even if it leads into more hurting it's probably "ha ha go do this paperwork instead" hurting and not, actual hurting.
"Sounds nice," he says, after a long delay to compute all that.
