“That’d probably be a bigger act of self-harm than using a knife on yourself,” they chuckle. But they wouldn’t have chalked any of it up to Kent missing them - instead it would have been that they weren’t around to see Kent hurt themselves and stop him.

“Stars, Kent, that…you really scared me.”

They brushed their thumb up and down their cheek, feeling the little pinpricks of hair underneath his skin. “Huh. I never noticed.”