They moved on then, and, thankfully, a few moments later, the beating stopped and they boy who’d won the fight left. The boy who’d lost was badly hurt, but not so much his life was in danger. He was able to, with effort, pick himself up and limp home, where, Kes and Anara could tell from his thoughts, that his mother and sister would take care of him. Anara had been right, the boy wanted revenge, though he was also ashamed of his weakness and hoped his father, who worked at the mines, wouldn’t find out exactly what had happened. Kes and Anara both wished things could be different for the boy, for all the children of the Kazon, and found themselves looking forward to living a life far away from such things, because they knew they couldn’t change them. Maybe even, Kes considered, didn’t have exactly the right to change them even if they could. With her power, she hesitated to even think what she might be able to do to another person, what she might be able to force on them. She never wanted to do that though, because she knew it would be essentially, horribly, wrong. It was a hard thing to think about, so Kes let herself let it go and refocused on her harmony with Anara. They were both finding it considerably harder to maintain now than it had been when they’d been in bed together. Which, they supposed, only made sense. In bed, intimacy and mutual focus was the whole point, was what they both wanted to the exclusion of everything else. Here, now, they were trying to maintain that state while focusing on things other than each other. Thoughts wondered when you were doing things that parts of you didn’t want to do. It just meant they had to keep trying, and keep readjusting to one another whenever the harmony between them started to slip out of focus. Anara practiced meditation sometimes, like Tresit did, though not as much and of a different kind, so she knew this was actually a similar thing to that in that way. When you meditated, it wasn’t always easy to stay in a meditative state, you just had to accept that and learn to readjust without self-reproach.