Agreed. In the meantime, do you need me to shift shape around you? To get you used to it.

[He's clearly joking to lighten up the mood. They had just without words admitted he's a mess inside. Shiro draws away just enough they won't accidentally touch.

The last thing Wash needs is to experience being a fighter in an alien gladiator arena or experimented on.]

We might actually want to practice while I'm a Lion sometimes. All my memories of being the Lion aren't all that bad.