"Thank you." But his tone was dry and dammit he should be able to make more of an effort than that. At least Seel seemed to have figured out that Swift was not happy with him. That would hopefully get some kind of compliance out of him, if not politeness. He'd been fighting that battle for years and he wasn't about to believe that he'd ever win.

"I've never been sick before now, Seel--my own fault or otherwise. The closest I've ever been before is feybraiha and even then it wasn't nearly as painful as this is now." It was uncomfortable and long and he'd hated it, but it hadn't hurt quite this much. "Just...please. Don't."