If it were anyone else, Ty might not have believed them. Delilah always told him he tended to look for the good in others, so much so that he tended to blind himself to everything else. But the way Kira was refusing to look at him, the tenseness of his stance, drove it home like a spike being hammered into the ground.

"Hey." Even though it seemed like another one of those 'walking when the don't walk sign' was flashing in bright ominous lights, Ty closed the distance between them, resting a hand on Kira's back as if he could help bleed out all the things that were eating at him with touch alone. Like they were still in high school and they were always finding excuses to touch. Soothingly, he ran a thumb along the back of Kira's neck, wishing there was more he could say, some way he could apologize. But how could he really, when he didn't really know what he was sorry for?

"We're in this together now, okay? And since you know this place better than me, I'll listen if you tell me not to walk."