It felt strange to know that he had been so close to Meru and yet the two of them had never crossed paths. It shouldn't have felt that strange through. Steve's presence in the hospital had been a fairly closely guarded secret, up until the last few months. The Aurors assigned to his case hadn't agreed with his decision to even return to school, but he was a fully emancipated adult now and could make his own decisions.
"More than fine," Steve replied, looking down at his hands. Sometimes he just needed the physical reminder of what he looked like now.
"When I woke up, I looked just like this. All my old health problems, the asthma, the anaemia, the brittle bones... all of it was just... gone. I heard someone say you did this to yourself somehow?"