Morgen doesn't want Effire to die for his sake, of course, but he's not going to reject the attempt at comfort for the both of them right now, either. Or pass up the chance to tease his partner.
Reminder that our webcomic collective, SpiderForest, is currently Kickstarting its newest short comic anthology, Threads: Immortal! We don't have a story in this one, but I forgot to mention last week that a PDF of the new version of Tamuran Book 1 is included in the "Endless E-book Cache" reward tier.