“Because I also run on suffering and death,” Palamedes quips. Okay, sure, he would never explain necromancy like that—as he had told Jade not so long ago, he sees the work of the necromancer as something much more holistic—but it is a little bit true. Maybe more than a little bit. There’s a reason Pal still believes the captain to be some kind of necromancer himself, after all.

His mouth makes a startled ‘o’ when she takes his glasses, though he realizes why she's done it a moment later why. “…Thanks. Um.” Pal gestures at her hand. “Usually I’d be able to help with that, sorry. But I’ve got some sticky bandages in my bag.”