"'m fine, Allen," Renji said, though he did reach out an unsteady hand to carefully take the napkins, using them to pinch his nose shut. "Nurses are trouble." Head down, he missed the dirty looks between the kids, and that was probably for the best.

"No reason to report on it," he said. It had been a personal thing, after all. Though he was planning on talking to Hitsugaya, to find out if they had any idea what the hell Aidou, and the other two like him, were. Anything that hungry made him a little prickly; hungry things eventually ate. "We can try again later." When he wasn't already sick and pathetically weak and in pain.

He was a bit surprised, though, that Aidou left as quickly as he did. Well, considering the kid's attitude, maybe it wasn't surprising. Renji really wasn't at his most useful, and it wasn't as if they particularly liked each other.

"You okay, Allen?" he asked.