Annabelle is too familiar with that kind of 'I'm fine' to believe it, mostly from using it herself.

Still, it's not like she can MAKE him rest. "Good idea," Annabelle agrees, getting to her feet. She resolutely ignores a twinge of pain that may or may not be a herald of worse to come.

Damn Siberia and the Rational Experimentation Group to the deepest level of hell.

She moves, slowly, down the left hand side of the room.