[Chunks of his hair simply snap off under Zack's ruffling fingers, the longer bits way too brittle to stand up to much of anything. Al has no idea the multitude of issues that malnutrition can cause... and has caused. Brittle hair and paper-thin skin are just the mildest of them.
He can't seem to stop now that he's started, but they're happy tears. His chest feels like it's going to burst with how hard his heart is hammering.]
Y-You...
[His voice is thick and small through the tears and muffled in Zack's neck, so probably relatively hard to understand.]
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He can't seem to stop now that he's started, but they're happy tears. His chest feels like it's going to burst with how hard his heart is hammering.]
Y-You...
[His voice is thick and small through the tears and muffled in Zack's neck, so probably relatively hard to understand.]
...thank you.