Eye Contact
Usually, people didn't look at him.
Uncle looked through him instead, searing him with his failings as a harpoon through a whale.
She didn't look at him either - not the way she looked at Daniel-san.
Daniel-san's strange friend was one of the few people who did look. "You're that Chozen asshole?" he leered, clearly drunk, but his eyes were clear blue, honest and unashamed.
Eerily, they remind him of Daniel-san's gaze, that terrible day in that terrible storm.
The students' eyes follow his moves, but they don't see him. No matter - soon, they will. "Look eye," he says, and begins.