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“It’s different,” Kenshi muses. “It was hard, at first. The pain, and the darkness. Navigating was… difficult, and I couldn’t fight. I didn’t want to put you all in danger.” A pause. Then, softly, Johnny asks, “Does it still hurt?” Kenshi’s chest aches at how small Johnny sounds. It’s a wild contrast to how he normally is— a big, demanding presence, a nuisance, like a terrible gnat buzzing into your ear. Johnny sounds younger, unsure of himself. Painfully sincere in a way that Kenshi hadn’t thought him capable of. He thinks of an answer. Briefly, he sees a pair of outstretched hands, calloused and scarred, yet warm and steady, spreading a balm over a blindfold. Careful hands reaching for the back of his head, an action far gentler than he deserves, fastening a knot. A hand encompassing his own trembling fingers, placing them onto a steady shoulder, coaxing him forward. “No,” Kenshi answers. “Not anymore.”

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