[Normally, Shell wouldn't accept a touch like this so readily from Reign -- and for a moment, he even starts to turn his head away on reflex.]

[But then he thinks better of it, instead turning his head into Reign's hand and closing his eyes. After the whirlwind of learning One was alive, only to be left by him and then have their entire world destroyed, the last thing Shell wants to do is push away the last emotional attachment he might have left.]

Mm... if you're the one saying so, then I have to believe it.

[Since Reign would never lie to him, right?]

You said... Olympia, is it? What's it like? Have you been living there this whole time?