Then I suppose it was worth it in the end, [ Dorian muses. He's a bit lost in thought, thinking of Jon's rib, thinking of the idea about meeting someone powerful enough to rip bones from your body, thinking about all the sorts of nasty things with that power could do to Jon—or hell, even to him.

And thinking about how he's got to uphold his end of the deal and what sort of move he'll take next. ]

It was smart of you to choose a rib. If I had to take a guess, I'd say that bones don't...grow the way that organs do.

[ There is DEFINITELY a story behind this. ]