"It's okay," Rich says, still holding Grif's hand, still brushing his fingers against Grif's. They're still a little cold, that's all. "It's not... an end to everything. And I think she'll understand."

He's accepted that his new state of being isn't going away, but also that it can be coped with. There just needs to be...an adjustment.

"This is just where I am right now. I've been trying to look at it all as just being...different. And needing to adjust to that. Not that it's like I'm too broken for anything to come next at all."