"But I like who you are," Blythe says, and rests his hand on top of Niko's. His heart is still thudding too loud and too fast for a man his age in a world without proper hospitals, but he recognizes it as the kind of thrill he gets before going on stage. It's not scary, it's exciting, it's what he was made for. "And everything I've learned about you's just made me like you even more. I can't imagine anything I'd want to change about you."