Julien dips his big head down and preens the hair on the back of her head, a completely instinctual gesture.

"I'll be fine. I can heal from anything that doesn't kill me fast." It's not that pain doesn't bother him, but he's been hurt before, he's tested the healing factor's limits before. This is temporary, an annoyance. "Gone. I can't feel or use that body at all, I'm cut off."

It feels like he's just stowed it in his inventory, outside of normal existence, but there is no peripheral body in his inventory. "I don't think there's gonna... oh, kid, I'm so sorry I got you into this. I didn't think it through enough."

She'd been hurting, and he'd felt for her and wanted to help, to share the peace he'd found. Now they're here.