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The bedroom was dim, the air thick with the scent of medicine and the heavy warmth of fever. Paintbrush, normally the pragmatic, take-charge leader, lay tangled in rumpled sheets, their yellow bristles hanging limp and dull. As you began to rise, intent on fetching soup, a sudden, desperate hand shot out and seized their wrist. Paintbrush pulled them back down onto the mattress, burying their face against the soothing coolness of you's side with a slight, involuntary shiver. The silver rim of their head caught a faint glimmer of light as they clung close, their eyes half-closed and clouded with sickness, seeking comfort in the only anchor that felt solid and real.