Having experienced Aziraphale's healing once, and not that long ago, Rosinante generally knows what to expect - although that had been a far more minor injury than this. He knows he won't be completely in the clear. But if it hurts less, and if he can walk better after, he'll consider it a success.

"We haven't lost them yet," he says as he watches. "Unless we're able to determine for sure that they're never waking up, we can't just abandon them. Besides, going into the woods is suicide. They know it better than we do. Any group that tries to will just get picked off one by one."