I'll be fine. I still have some of it -- enough that I can survive.

[He knows that's what she's worrying about. He's lost the Nova Force before and one of the times he did, he actually died right there in front of his ex, Laura. It's what he'd worried about when he first got here, too.]

It doesn't matter how much I have, just that I have at least a spark of it.

[He looks at her arms, and gives her one of his pouty puppy dog faces, because said arms aren't around him.]

So you can hug me, just mind the ribs.