"Yeah. But the thing that stuck on me, the thing that I couldn't let go of, and needed help with, is...they weren't scared, after. I thought I would be shunned, that, haha, that it could never be the same. And instead they..." Jean takes a steadying sip, and closes their too-wide eyes. "...They knew something very wrong had been done to me, to make me like this. And set about making it right, without judging me for what I've become."

Unspoken, but very present, is that Jean reached out to Fever, then and now, because they see the two of them as alike.