The water slipped down his skin and into the drains of the shared showers of the firelight base. Ekko let the dirt of the long agonizing mission flow down the drain to be forgotten about.

He turned, finding you enter the showers as well. And join under the next shower. You scrub at your skin, wishing the dirt away just as much. Ekko's eyes didn't mean to linger long, but they stayed the second they saw the scars.

Not the scars that littered your body from battle, but the two scars resting right under your chest.