[A fine question. The answer may be too poor an answer to say.]

Being warm during a cold winter's night would not be the worst fate. [It's not really a direct answer, because the most direct answer would be, simply, no. After what his power has been used to do -- even if it was him, in the end, at fault -- he hesitates to reach into it at all.

For what end? To serve himself? What good would that do? He has been cold before.] I could be, though not intentionally. You've a very thin thread of patience for an instructor.