Junior Year, just after Stevens 18th Birthday

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"Are you okay?"

Steven gritted his teeth but forced his hands to relax. "I'm just... hurting again."

She reached up to massage his neck and he grunted appreciatively. "It's all the testosterone and probably cortisol. You get tender in your neck when you're going through growth spurts."

He hated that his body grew so sporadically, he hated how it shrunk when he was upset and destroyed things he sometimes couldn't even heal. And now he was going through another change, yet another couple of weeks of borderline agony to replace his crumbling mental health. "What if I never stop growing?"

"Then I guess you'll be First Giant."

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