Very bad indeed. David had been the only one to touch Josh directly, but he had almost gotten sick from even that brief brush of skin.

"Better now. But it wasn't an experience I want to relive. He's scared of his powers on that spectrum, and this won't have helped," David sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose.

Was he okay? Could he even be okay? No, he didn't think so. At all.

"I'm left wondering if there is a means where one can even sufficiently punish villainy when death does not last for us."