"You're a doctor," he says, stridently pursuing the very top priority of maintaining his sanity through idiotic chatter. "What's that like, wolfboy disease? Where you grow hair all over your body."

Really, idiotic questions can only help to ground them both.

"Ah, fuck." Kira disappears briefly, catching sight of someone on the other side of the fountain. Nerys makes three, and he starts circling the fountain's edge as he wrings out his hair. "Is every last one of us going to come back out of this thing? We're barely out of winter yet."