"I caught three bullets in my chest," he explained, "and only one of them hit my spine. The other two just kinda... messed things up. There were operations, and then an infection. I'm... I was gonna say 'I'm okay now', but... I'm getting there?" He smiled at her touch through the Force, and tried to reach back. It was clumsy at best, but at least he was using the Force again.
He looked back round at Kytana as she mentioned his older self. "Tommy made a wish, to fix the damage in his spine. That's how he got to walk again, after all the physio with Aaron. But the wish wore off. I remember that, they'd been swordfighting. And then he got healed the second time because he switched with Mitchell. I don't think I like the sound of either of those two, y'know?" He fiddled with the blanket covering his legs as he spoke, and then put both hands flat on his thighs. "Something'll come up, though. And if it doesn't, well. I ain't dead, right?"