"It won't wake her up?" Ben repeated, because that was the part of this exchange that had sunk in fastest and hardest despite the generally optimistic tone the other two seemed to be taking. He needed Melody to be awake again, and he didn't know how he was supposed to measure what was helpful if it didn't get her there. Helpful in what way? Was there some other danger that he wasn't aware of that a bezoar might help with? This sent a fresh spike of panic through him, because he had just assumed that she was relatively stable at the moment. That was why he'd gone to Bartonburg in the first place, instead of straight to the hospital, because he'd thought her condition was — bad, but not changing. If there was some current danger that a bezoar would help with, and he'd just left Melody alone in the house —

"What am I supposed to tell the healers?" he asked, voice rising slightly again as his panic did the same. "What did you do?"