At least-- frozen like this he cannot scream. The screams were a deal worse than even the sight of him - it was a struggle to get anyone tended to...

[and it's an awful thing to consider - that some of their patients he helped care for were tortured to their deaths by those cries; that their last moments were spent in the same terror and anguish as the dragon. One hand has come up to his chest, to try to settle himself]