Kalim blinks.

"Um," he says. "Since all this...nearly killed you?"

And, well, he did worry before that, but... it was always so easy to just brush it off and take everything for granted, when Jamil never got seriously mad at him. When it always seemed like it was forgiven so easily, because Kalim couldn't imagine how a person could go on taking such diligent care of someone if they were truly mad at them.

Oops!

"I didn't get it before," he adds. "But... I guess I kind of still don't. Haha."