[He's not so much wary as he is...somewhat confused by all of this; it's been quite some time since he was fussed over like this by anyone else - not since the field hospital at Briggs, when people had very good reason to fuss. He hadn't been too fond of it then, and he isn't exactly too fond of it now - checking his pulse will result in either taking off his gloves or loosening the scarf he usually wears and exposing his neck, and he isn't too inclined to do either in front of someone in this world that he doesn't know very well. If he absolutely must, he'll do the former well before the latter, but...]
Fussing like this is rather unnecessary, you know - I haven't the vaguest why you think I would be ill.
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[He's not so much wary as he is...somewhat confused by all of this; it's been quite some time since he was fussed over like this by anyone else - not since the field hospital at Briggs, when people had very good reason to fuss. He hadn't been too fond of it then, and he isn't exactly too fond of it now - checking his pulse will result in either taking off his gloves or loosening the scarf he usually wears and exposing his neck, and he isn't too inclined to do either in front of someone in this world that he doesn't know very well. If he absolutely must, he'll do the former well before the latter, but...]
Fussing like this is rather unnecessary, you know - I haven't the vaguest why you think I would be ill.