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Zandik would look back on this moment as the point of no return. He would remember the way the light had fallen, the way your hand had felt against his cheek.
He would remember, and he would have to choose what to do with the remembering. He would have to decide whether to classify this moment as a weakness to be exploited or a strength to be protected, whether to integrate it into the person he was becoming or bury it beneath the person he had been.
But for now, in the moment itself, he simply existed. He let himself be held, and in the holding, found something he had long ago forgotten was possible for a monster like him.
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In which the original Zandik finally allows himself the comfort of another’s presence.