Jason only hesitated a moment before following...aaaat a good distance.

Ash disappeared into the kitchen for a moment. He was talking to a few unknown, high-pitched voices--Leanansidhes brownies?--before he reappeared holding a small tan jar.

He followed in through the door a bit after Ash and,with slowly lessingin reptilian eyes,eyed the jar a bit.The left over red at the center of his freckles and his wings firm to his sides and tail close.The splint had held firm.

He didnt say anything as he went upstairs to the loft, sitting Jason down on the neatly made bed after pulling off the bear rug. Opening the jar released a sharp, herbal scent that was oddly familiar.

Jason's tail curled into a coil besides him and he felt a little sad that little icey Shade wouldn't curl up in it,though he pushed the feeling down. He remembered,though,of when he'd patched up Ash when they'd run to his room,he felt bad still from that.He felt that it truly had been his fault that Ash had gone through all this,the pain and loss.Danger and all. He didn't mind the oddly familiar scent at the moment.
A ring of guilty gray circled the puff of red that wasn't fading in his freckles.

Ash knelt behind him on the bed and gently tugged the sleeve off his shoulder, just enough to expose the thin line of red slashed across his skin. There was a flicker of remorse from him, a flash of dull regret, as a cold, tingling salve was spread over the wound.

He flinched,not liking the coldness but he tilted his head so his hair wasn't in the way. His eyes closed and his fangs weren't as long as before now but he wasn't fully calm.Yet. Memories of Shade attacked his mind,though he laid his wings to the side and out of the way his tail twitched as the memories bombarded him.Relentlessly.

Cold fingers slid over Jason's ribs, leaving a blessed numbness as they passed.

He sighed very softly as the numbness felt nice,blissed rose gold rippling in his underwings and washing through his freckles and masking the red.His tail relaxed from being a little tense.

Ash reached around with both arms and put the jar into Jason's hands, using that motion to pull him back to his chest. "I need to find a different way to provoke you," he murmured. "I didn't really mean what I said, I just had to get you angry enough."