Jono gave a small nod in confirmation at that. There was a reason he and Hannibal tended toward slightly less... ah... traditional ideas of intimacy.

Well. There were a few reasons. He wasn't about to get into those, here and now.

//Makes sense,// he said, finally. //Connections get carved away, things go numb, you make those connections with whatever else you've got left. Makes it hard to be certain if you're feeling pleasure or pain, sometimes?//

Worked well enough when talking in a physical or a mental sense, didn't it?