“It’s called constans.” He touched the vial in the box, small and plain. “It’s not flashy. It’s not loud. It’s the weight of returning, again and again, without a single dramatic burst. It’s the thing that keeps everything else from evaporating.”

The final piece was the hardest for Leo: non-neediness. Not pretending to be aloof, but genuinely not needing the outcome.

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They both laughed — real, ugly, human laughter.