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shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

slap a hand to his face, or his arm, or his side and he would *hurt,* and there was nothing they could do to help him. His soulmate was in pain, and nothing had helped. Not recording the phantom injuries and filing with the child welfare office to see if they could find and help

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shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

their boy’s poor heart-twin. Not specialists to see if they could muffle the connection. Not meditation, or thought exercises, or anything. So John grew up hurting, and he grew up *angry.* Martial arts instruction had been the only thing that had helped.

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shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It gave him a focus, and a channel, and a *place to start.* He had grown up impotent to help the one person who was supposed to be *his* and he *hated it.* It had changed, eventually, around the time that John was fourteen.

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