[It's difficult dealing with Kalim, sometimes, because he's so...unsubtle. If he said something like, "Do you want to be held by me this badly?" Kalim might just point blank say yes, yes he did. What was he supposed to do with that? He didn't know what to do with that. That isn't how people were supposed to respond to him.

But, it's fine. Kalim's leaning on him again, and it's...cozy, even though he'd never admit that to Kalim, if he admitted he found it cozy who knew what Kalim would do. (It would be cozier if you laid down whispered a small, traitorous part of him that Jamil promptly ignored.)]

If you get too comfortable you won't want to get off when we arrive.

[Even so, there he is, his hand idly making its way into Kalim's hair, rubbing patterns in his scalp.] The point of all of this is still for me to drown you eventually.