Under his scrutiny, I learned my importance. And holy fuck was it empowering.
The sad thing is that because Devon is such a good talker, he tends to not believe what other people say. Plus, because he's been in his own head for so long, he hasn't been paying attention to what people are doing, either. So as much as Devon needed to exercise his inner demons and trust people, it was never going to happen because somebody told him what he wanted to hear, that doesn't work for him. It takes him being in a place where he's totally naked - soul and body both - and for somebody to show him that he's valuable. I don't know that it will stick (I wouldn't be shocked if there was some backsliding, let's be real), but this is the first time where he sees it and he'll always go back to this moment. Again, they work best when they're able to communicate wordlessly.
