He was pretty sure she still didn't believe him and that made his chest ache. He wanted her to feel safe; she deserved to feel safe. But she didn't. If saying that she was safe wasn't convincing her, he decided then that he'd just have to show her.

Actions were louder than words, right? He was always better at actions anyway.

For just a moment, his hand lingered a little too long after she'd tugged him along. He gently pulled it away and then they caught up with the others and made their way to the tattoo parlor.

Like many things in Dauntless it was trying too hard to be edgy with moody reddish and purple lighting and columns that had hanging glass plates of tattoo designs that people could select. All of the Dauntless people milling around were in equally edgy black clothes, many of them skintight.

Raph milled around looking at designs until he found one of a yin yang symbol wreathed in beautifully rendered flames.

He tapped it and looked to Nico. "I'm thinking this one, on my upper arm. But I'm gonna have them do something custom in the middle instead of the yin yang. I've got an idea for something a little more, y'know...personal."