Much better. He instantly finds their closeness preferable. It's also a good thing that she's looking at his chest and not his face, since he quickly (and quietly) bites down on his knuckle to make himself bleed a little. It doesn't hurt all that much anymore; he's pretty used to the feeling.

Beyond her range of vision, he uses his blood to draw four symbols in the air right above her back, then press them, paper-thin, against her skin. The blood in her body starts to move a little in a slightly unnatural way--the body may feel a little dizzy as it tries to compensate. Soon things are working the way that they should, though, and he treats her entire body like one large bruise. It's a massive clearance of dead and dying being replaced and knitted up by the new and empowered. It's cold and warm all at once, but the feeling lessons the more it works.