[She accepts very calmly the knowledge that in extremis this talent Valdis possessed could lead to death. She'd agreed to let her do it, after all, and-]

Don't worry. If it had started to feel dangerous to me, I'd have pulled away. [Presuming that Ari's danger point came before the energy drain made her too weak to do so, of course. But this doesn't occur to her, and Valdis has no reason to try to kill her, so she's unconcerned at present.

Then Valdis is telling her she's not in her galaxy and things are different, and Ari has to bite back a sarcastic oh really, I hadn't noticed. She focuses on Valdis' ability again instead.]

If you were wounded severely, could you draw from multiple people at once to heal yourself, instead of risking the life of a single person?