( medicine pocket is very good at catching 4 off guard. "healthier way"? if 4 were a different person (other than being, well, a different person literally), he might laugh. as it is, there are black spots breaking up his poor vision and so he hears medicine pocket at this point more so than seeing them. vaguely he can feel them still weighing him down as well, but it's secondary to their voice. )
...there...there isn't...one.
( whether or not medicine pocket believes him is not a concern, and he isn't trying to sound particularly convincing, indeed 4's voice remaining more or less the same this whole time. the main difference is that it's a little quieter now and a little stilted, the discomfort from the wound in his neck actually coming second best to the lancing of the permet through him, brightest along his arms under his sleeves, the sides of his neck, and under his eyes. some of the striations seem almost white rather than red. )
no subject
...there...there isn't...one.
( whether or not medicine pocket believes him is not a concern, and he isn't trying to sound particularly convincing, indeed 4's voice remaining more or less the same this whole time. the main difference is that it's a little quieter now and a little stilted, the discomfort from the wound in his neck actually coming second best to the lancing of the permet through him, brightest along his arms under his sleeves, the sides of his neck, and under his eyes. some of the striations seem almost white rather than red. )