The touch had been so brief and then Julian's gone. Garak watches him go, at a loss for anything else to say. Several of the arrests of late have made his life smaller and emptier, and now this. He wishes he'd realized how close to going extreme Julian was and had somehow managed to stop him before today but it's far too late. It's far too late for a great many people now.

Clumsily he takes painkillers and then waits for someone to pass by because even with them, he's not going to be walking out of here on his own. Not like Julian did.