I love how you have Cain freeing Glitch from the log *am now marking this up, too, as canon henceforth* and his tender ministrations to his scrape.
I could smooch Raw for encouraging Glitch so kindly.

Cain certainly wasn’t the first to touch his markings this way, but he was the first to do it with such care; with a sense of wonder, as if Glitch were valuable and wonderful.

What a beautiful paragraph! *dabs eye*

And the hug at the end is so perfect, it really speaks more than...well, more would have done.