Jedao nuzzles him, strokes more human-feeling hands along his arms. He hadn't planned it, but engulfing Fives had been very helpful for remembering certain physical articulations more precisely.

"No, but you can certainly choose to be more miserable about it. The body exists to feel, you know. To grow and change and scar and survive and ache and year and delight and die and rot. You aren't meant to be all pure, none of you. It's cruel of her to ask it."