Penny was standing at his back and lifted his shirt higher. "You have a lot of 'flesh wounds'!" She saw the stitches and looked at him with wide eyes.

"Yes, uh, my vacation has been a little more... exciting than I hoped it would be," he shrugged.

Karen lifted the front of his shirt and saw the older scars. "These aren't new." She ran her fingers over the rough tissue. Ben squirmed with the sensations.

"No, those happened earlier this year."

Penny came around to his front to see the scars and reached out to touch his bullet scars which were much lower on his torso. Tingles shot through Ben's...