"Not like I'm saying we should go on a ten mile hike or something. I'm perfectly content to stay right here," Krem said, settling down contentedly against Thomas. Most, if not all of his current aches and pains were familiar ones. He'd known them for years, nearly half his life or more in one way or another, and Darrow had been a strange vacancy of them.

"I just...wanted to be here with you." He hummed a little. "I like being with you, Thomas."