[Dion is not unused to the sharp stabs of pain that comes from these wounds. He's done his best to clean and tend them over the last few days, but it never gets any easier. The marred flesh is tender and angry even still, and no amount of gentleness will completely take away the pain. He has experienced far worse, though. And so while it hurts he needs to do little more than set his jaw and stare at a wall. It will be over soon enough.

Still, he cannot let Joshua's insistence slide. He sighs only a little sharply, and only because it's a sensitive area that's just been brushed. He ignores it for now, shaking his head as he does.]

Every day is far too much, even for you. Doubtless, there are others who need your assistance out there. I will not take you from them.

[And maybe, just maybe, he also doesn't think he deserves that much care and attention. It is but another form of punishment he must bear. To ease the burden would be to casually erase the suffering he had wrought upon others.]