It was a good question, and Ashura sighed heavily.

"I do not know. I know I should," he admitted. "I won't want to though." Golden eyes flickered up to Gideon, to weary to hate him at the moment, drained, their depths remembering old pains that marched back centuries. "I'm sure he'll pull through, Howl's magic is powerful, only... " What if something went wrong and they didn't notice? What if they woke and Felix was gone, just an empty shell?

It was to horrible to imagine.