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[gently patting his head.]

Does it hurt, Kaine?

[GUESS WHO'S A VETERAN,]

[he doesn't answer. instead, he grabs randy and curls around him like a miserable stray, burying his face into the other man.]

[oh

tucks himself close, wrapping his arms tight around him.]

[it's cuddling time now. forever. :c]

i thought i had longer 'fore... i started degenerating.

You knew it would happen, huh...

Do you know how long you have?

dunno. healing magic helps a lil

fenwytch, he's-- powerful. but they made'im less strong

...I'm not a great healer. But I'll pick up a Tear quartz. I can help a lil too.

[i'm pretty sure crystal healing is bogus randy]

...if i gotta be waited on every single day with healers and, and life support, i--

[he makes an unhappy whine. it's not true that he'd rather be dead. he WANTS to live, even if he doesn't deserve it. he's selfish that way.]

[just you wait]

We won't let it get that bad. But if it'll help until we work out a longterm solution...

you don't know. you can't know that... i wasn't ever meant t'be alive. wasn't even 'posed live longer than-- months.

[He swallows, thickly]

if i die like this, do... do you think they'll still bring me back? t'degenerate more an' more each time?

...Let's not speculate. But I ain't gonna let go of you so easy, darlin'.

'm just gonna get uglier and uglier. like a... a burn victim.

y'won't like me anymore......

Kaine. Love. You think I ain't seen gnarly scars?

[muffled mnghgghhh]

you shouldn't have to stay...

If you keep assuming I wanna go, I'm gonna get annoyed.

[HUFFS. He turns his face up to look Randy in the eye - while Kaine's own face takes on the same reddish hair and colouration.]

'm not assuming, i'm telling you y'SHOULD want to.