[ Like Yuri wouldn't have been torturing himself, too. Like Yuri would have been any less frantic, any less upset, although possibly more measured: he has always been slightly more cool-headed in a crisis than Flynn.

But he is alive, and that is what matters. Everything else they can deal with later. Flynn won't push him while he's still so cold and so subdued. ]

Blood magic. What else?

[ He can't tell Yuri the details of it, because he figures he won't like those at all: how he went to a small strange shop in Prufrock and sat there for hours with blood draining from his arm, how his blood infuses that red, red thread and radiates the heat Yuri always seems to be missing. ]

It was a strange process to watch, but it seems to work, and they made it in such a way that the pollution was lessened. Used it all, cleared the air afterwards.