[ She laughs, but there's no humor in it. Coming closer, she traces the scar lightly with her fingertips. It is a pain she never would have wanted the people she loved to experience.
But when he puts it that way, part of her is desperately relieved. Someone else understands what she's gone through. Settling a hand on her own torso, just below her left breast, she kisses just above the scar, and then steps back. ]