[ Note: positive reinforcement works with Kaz. It's not the sort of primal push and pull he understands to have been a part of Kaz's life in the past, but something Venom's finding out for himself about his companion. It's genuine; he appreciates it in private. ]
You won't be working alone.
[ Solidarity, reassurance. Other things that he knows now that Kaz appreciates and wants to have enunciated in words, because simplicity works. He breathes something soft, knowing, before pulling his hand away and nodding once as punctuation. ]
...Starting to miss you bossing me around, anyway.
[ A JOKE, THIS IS A JOKE... the only bit of levity they have to spare right now. ]
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You won't be working alone.
[ Solidarity, reassurance. Other things that he knows now that Kaz appreciates and wants to have enunciated in words, because simplicity works. He breathes something soft, knowing, before pulling his hand away and nodding once as punctuation. ]
...Starting to miss you bossing me around, anyway.
[ A JOKE, THIS IS A JOKE... the only bit of levity they have to spare right now. ]