Oh god he knows Malcolm was sick when he gave him the bracelet. Because you were acting like a weirdo lunatic, Bright. Even more than usual, he reminds himself.

"Oh. Um. Yeah. They barely had to cut me. Right as rain now." He kind of wraps his arms around himself. "Much better. Thanks. How are you?" he asks with such an earnest attempt at being casual that it comes off as not casual at all.