[he nods then - and will move to give them a hug. it's not touch week but every week is touch week until buzen dies! so next week.

anyway it's a warm embrace, a kind one. he really does give such good hugs. but this one feels particularly protective, like he wants to shield them from everything they've had to endure so far. from everything they will endure in the future. he's careful, just in case they still have injuries from thursday but.

sometimes touch is the only way to really get something across for a sword.]

Let yourself be supported too. I know it's probably weird for me to say, after everything... but I think that even knowing something is going to hurt doesn't make it any better.

It's good that you're grounded in reality - but you deserve to have something warm for yourself too, now and then.