"That's right, the family business. Begun by my father, passed down to me." He said nothing more than that; that was as far as he was willing to go on the matter.

He still wasn't comfortable with having the other man touch him like that, not with his bruises, and he shrank away at the start. It was only when he had taken a breath that he let the doctor feel. "...the creature responsible wasn't planning to kill me, Doctor. Otherwise I wouldn't be here."