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A comfortable silence fell across us.

I suddenly became aware of how close they both were, just how intimate this felt with our clothes very much on and nothing sexual going on.

"Can I ask you something?" I said in a really hushed tone.

"Anything," Draven replied.

"What changed? Between you two, I mean. You hated each other for years. And now you're working together, fighting side by side. What changed?"

The brothers exchanged a look over my head.

"You," Maleek said simply. "You ...