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It wasn’t that Kaz himself didn’t want more. His emotions paced inside his body like a caged animal, terrified, furious, longing for release. He was broken in a way that he did not know how to fix, and the frustration built as he pushed himself and learned the exact dimensions of his prison. In the end, he realized that there’d be no escape. As he had done with the Dregs and with Fifth Harbor, he’d have to take the shattered remains of something ruined and build it up into something stronger. This scarred and crippled body, this racing heart and skin that flinched from touch, they were his and he would find a way to use them to give her what she wanted.
Like all good schemes, he could see the paths of it in his mind like rivers on a map, like veins under the skin. What Inej wanted from him was passion, vulnerability, intimacy. But intimacy wasn’t a single physical act, and she knew that even better than he did.
Series
- Part 1 of Learning to Touch