I would leave it more often if concerned busy-bodies did not make it their jobs to bombard me with worries over my health.

[Not naming names or anything but you know who you are!! Matoba frowns to himself at the implication that he was at fault for this, and not at Kimmuriel's attitude, which was honestly #relatable.] But if I am to stay here and "rest" [the quotes are audible], then at least I ought to be doing something producti--

[Whatever the rest of Matoba's grumpy complaint was going to be is cut off by a sharp intake of breath. The brush he was working with falls from his hand as he clutches his skull, and gnashing his teeth, suppresses a strangled sound just barely at the back of his throat.]