#undying affection

Human now. He had never used to notice temperature. Now he did. He noticed that the porcelain was cool against his thighs, and that much felt good against the suffocating Alabama heat of a motel too cheap to keep up their air conditioning, but it was still too narrow to balance comfortably, and there was no comfortably when you were trying to stitch up your own ribs with a modified fishing hook and dental floss.