[ It's as if she had been holding her breath, waiting for his answer. She isn't asking for him to be careful-- she knows how he is. And she doesn't know if him treating near-deaths as "no big deal" is how he copes with it, through all the times he has experienced it. She wishes he could have better than that, he deserves to be safe. While she knows he will continue to fight for others when necessary, that's his choice. The crystal's effects are not. At least... outside of the battlefield, he won't be in danger of losing his life to it. She wants him to have that. ]

As long as you have it with you.

[ She answers, her eyes flicking to the crystal on his chest, then up to his face.

Her telling him that she could take back the crystal at any moment doesn't seem so much like an option anymore, when his life is on the line. At the same time, if he dies, and she uses her crystal to bring him back, would it not reset him to a state that wouldn't need protection? A death loophole, as it were--

She doesn't want to test it. ]

It's--um-- we are used to processing and storing so much history. It will hold, but... [ But the hows aren't important. Pyra tilts her head, then, tentatively: ] How are you feeling? Up here, I mean. [ Her hand moves to brush through his hair, afterwards tapping a finger to the side of his head. ]