Vax slid arms around his twin and hugged her, tight and close, reassured that they were very nearly of a size now as ever. He held her like that, silently, hardly even noticing how dripping wet and injured she was. Holding Vex alone was all too much, and he clung to her, having all the strength in the world for all her knees might be weak. That's what they were, for each other, since always.

Tears streaked his cheeks - he never did care as much for appearances as she did, and fuck it, after all they'd been through - by the time her hushed sob and sniffle noises got through to him. He knew why he was a shitshow, but what could Vex have been through that had made her so upset?

The thought sobered him enough to unclench his throat. "I don't know where you've been or what's happened," he told her hair intently. "But I've missed you, and I'm not ever going to let you go so far from me again."