Horvath isn’t about to enlighten him, so he’ll never know. “It looks a bit as if you came down with a sudden case of cataracts, and the skins red around them. I think if you mostly keep your eyes closed, it shouldn’t bother anyone too much.” That’s a kind way of saying that if he leaves his eyes open, yes they are kind of freaky looking.

“I will take another look, in the morning. And I’m planning to teleport between here and the clinic where you found me. I can spare the power to take myself back and forth, at least.” Transporting the whole group they brought here, especially after a busy day of healing, was just a little too much. Maybe if he’d rested up first, and then they might have avoided the whole mess with Steve’s eyes, but it’s also trickier to get somewhere magically that you have never yet been to, so they could have been diverted and ended up who knows where. It’s pointless to think of what might have been.

He’ll probably struggle to fall asleep, thinking about it anyway.