He knows what it costs David to touch him right now and he hates himself for it. He shouldn’t be taking this space, making this about him. But now that the spiral has started, kept so carefully packed away for months now, he can’t seem to stop it.

“I had the power to do something. The resources. The access. And I ran. And while things were getting worse I looked the other way, convinced others to look away. A whole city evaporated, David. A war that destroyed thousands of lives.”