Coming along had meant finding himself a part of this community but it had also meant risking facing the one thing he has very little control over when it comes to himself. While they hoped to find living people buried in the rubble, there was a very real chance that what they would find was bodies and not living people.

Now, as they worked on clearing the rubble, that is suddenly a very real and frightening reality that he might find himself face to face with a corpse, even as he works to clear what he can, his cane carefully balanced against his side. Watching the emerging space carefully for signs of life, finding himself nearly holding his breath waiting for a hand or to hear a voice before there was a body before him.