Yeah. Heart virus, when I was ten. Trust me, being reminded of him is a good thing. I like knowing there are still people like him out there.

[It very easily could have been!]

For me it has been.

[But he smiles, and, as self-conscious as the statement makes him, refrains from touching the scar across his eye.]

Guess I won't know until I try. D'you talk to him much? Since your spar, I mean.