//She was three lifetimes ago and counting,// Jono noted, shrugging his shoulders a little bit. //I have a lot of past to live in. Some of it even actually happened.//

Which was another completely different mess of issues, really.

//I'm learning how to really live again. I'm trying. Forward is a direction I've actually started looking, for once. I can meet people's eyes again. You can tell me to stop moping, mate, and I'll agree wholeheartedly that's something I need to work on, but trust me, nobody is aware of all of the ways I've been holding myself back quite the way I am already.//