Well, I don't think they need to be filled in all the time. If you want to, there's always a way. But the bigger they are, the harder they are to fill.

Besides, most of them are pretty harmless. Sometimes, the patterns are even sort of beautiful.

[ Tylor accepts their help easily enough when he needs it, a stray stone or the sink of his crutch deeper than he expects will test his balance, but he is clearly doing his best not to require it. Not while they're probably still hurting too.

His sense of humor is similar without his memories, only through the lens of a tank. ]

In for now. But up or down, we'll write this tale together.