"Yes," Damen grunts out, then adds, "I'm fine. I've taken worse."

That was technically true, though worse damn near killed him. Damen preferred not to dwell on that. The scars had healed, mostly. They didn't bother him.

"You shouldn't--" he looked up, then, and got an actual look at his savior, who was... "...you're purple."

Look, he only has baseline humans where he's from, it's gonna take him a minute to adjust.