[ oooogh he doesn't like this. lu bixing can put together dots, and it is too familiar to an old infection that spread through a galaxy and decimated it once for him to sit comfortably with that, but.

he doesn't show it much beyond the way he bites the inside of his cheek before he talks again, returning to fixing up the cane. ]

... Well... I'll make sure to treat it, but... let's just make sure we keep an eye on it, okay? [ this is gently, calm. ] It's likely just an infection, but, if it's anything worse than that, we want to make sure we catch onto it quickly.