He shook his head when she asked if he needed to go to the hospital. "No, I'm alright." Well, he didn't have his pain medication on him, so he was likely to get crabby soon enough, but beyond that he was fine. "This is a few weeks old." Depressing that that was supposed to sound comforting. Unfortunately, he was kind of awful at comforting right now.
"Guess I should ask...ah...when are you from?" Might as well get that out of the way then. "I suppose before me if you're surprised by this," he said, indicating the cut on his neck. "Where you there when Connor was born?"