"I'm fine. This isn't like the smile - shin cuts are shallow even when they're painful as heck." He can say that with authority now of course, and he gives a faint grin at that. His leg has been stitched (paper stitched of course) up and he's been given less powerful painkillers than the ones he's immediately had. Plus, there's a wolf pup beside him. That's pretty awesome. He scratches her between the ears.