Carter holds up his hands and waves them, a small chuckle escaping him. "Stop it, stop it! You're making me hungry, and I'm not letting you get up just yet."

He checks the IV again, drawing some blood to make sure the drug is properly flushed out of his system and running a few more tests. "My parents didn't want me to eat them when I was a kid. Too--" Improper. "-- unhealthy, you know? Sometimes I snuck out of the house to get some from one of the food trucks at the riverside."