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Dreuer looked up, and found Gale’s hardened gaze staring intently back at him. For all his soft edges, the man had a rare ability to strip Dreuer to his bones and stare at his very core, to coax honesty from him when he knew damn well he would never have been honest before.
“I needed to see if I still could, but not near anyone I might hurt if it went wrong.” He grunted, slowly lowering his raised hand. Gale’s touch became gentler, the soft cushion of his palm encircled Dreuer’s thumb and he felt the soft and steady stroke of his fingertips over his knuckles.
“You’ve hurt yourself badly here, I’d say that's a rather efficient way to determine that this did, in fact, go very wrong. What were you thinking?”
“I had the capacity to do great things, and now I-“
“Dreuer.”
“What am I, if I have nothing left but you?”