For someone used to waking up in a hospital bed tended to by concerned friends (here, at least), it's no less uncomfortable to be on the other side of it. They've all been administered a cure, but there's no real solution for injuries sustained in an avalanche but to treat them and wait.

Which he does, anxiously, until Kell stirs for the first time. Viktor immediately sets aside his notebook and moves to stop him from doing too much, too soon.

"Kell--" Viktor's bedside manner is not necessarily the greatest, as he's more used to being a patient than the attending nurse, but he'll do his best. "Don't try to speak. You're safe now."