[There wasn't time for him to not, really. His heart is hammering in his throat and it makes the swallow he affords for Karamatsu's question difficult and audible, but he nods his head shakily, disentangling their fingers to take a few independent steps forward.]
[It was now or never. It had been too long since he'd seen any of them, and he was an absolute ghost of who he'd been when he left, but he couldn't keep running away. Not when they were teetering on the edge of becoming five.]
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[It was now or never. It had been too long since he'd seen any of them, and he was an absolute ghost of who he'd been when he left, but he couldn't keep running away. Not when they were teetering on the edge of becoming five.]