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“You aren’t like the others,” Knuckles continued. “You don’t try to change me.”

“And you don’t get to be more than that?” Sonic asked, softer.

They laughed. It dissolved the last of the stiffness between them, and the laughter became conversation until the moon rose high and the wind sang in the palms. Sonic told a ridiculous story about a chili dog contest gone wrong. Knuckles listened, then revealed, with surprising candor, a memory of a time he’d nearly lost everything and how he’d learned to trust his instincts more than anyone else’s plans.

“You ever think about leaving?” Sonic asked after a while.