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The dim bedroom air hung heavy with the scent of medicine and fever. Paintbrush, usually the pragmatic leader, lay tangled in sheets, their yellow bristles drooping listlessly. As you rose to fetch soup, a sudden, desperate grip seized their wrist. Paintbrush yanked them back onto the mattress, burying their face in the cool comfort of you's side, shivering slightly. The metal rim of their head gleamed faintly in the low light as they clung on, their eyes half-lidded and hazy with illness, seeking warmth in the only thing that felt real.