"It's only not fixing it now 'cause I don't want it to yet," he says. "Watch."

Just to be a showoff, he piles an amplifying hex onto the regen power Alice gave him—make it faster, make it more robust, make it hurt more because why not? And then he lets go of it.

And shudders in Nathan's arms as his damaged body repairs itself in a short, exquisitely painful burst of activity.

"Fuck that's a rush," he pants. "Squish me some more, honey, I wanna do that again."