Chronic

Pain doesn’t ever leave him. Almost every second of every day is spent with some degree of it haunting Shiro, reminding him of the past. Anything from the small aches that come from abusing his body or the sensation of cartilage catching in his knee from an injury that probably should have been surgically repaired. He’s laid in puddles of his own blood too many times to think that it’s worth bringing up. If he can put one foot in front of the other, it doesn’t matter how much it hurts. There are more important things.