[There's a pause in his response, but not his activities while he finds his words.]

I'm fine, love. [It's an unkind lie with all they've shared, but it slips from his lips with practiced ease. There's another pause.]

I fell under the lash too is all, but I've Wolfe's magic to mostly put me back together, aside from an ache. It's nothing to mind, just...between it and a few other things in my head, just...making touch an overwhelming thing last couple days. It's not odd for me, I swear.

[That was....partly true. It didn't used to be an odd thing and certainly with strangers, he was still a little touch wary outside of sex, but it had all but vanished with those closest to him. He hadn't had a fit like this in a while. Dissappointing, but not improbable.]