shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025It 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. 1200
shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The pain of blows and strikes unanswered gave way to the burn of overworked muscles. A few months into that, the bruising force of strikes on his body returned, but it had started to come with the ache in his hands of blows returned, a familiar pain from John’s own training. 1180
shadowspires.bsky.social @shadowspires.bsky.social · 31/03/2025His soulmate had started learning how to fight back. Good. John would fight for him, John would fight for him *every day,* but it would be better if they could fight together. But first he had to *find* him. 1190
