Haptics

How much you physically feel. Turn it up and every bump, vibration, and ache registers. Turn it down and the pain, tension, and discomfort fade into the background.

Haptics helped Dave register the full weight of what he'd experienced when others wanted to minimize it. Before his captivity, he lived with the subtle emotional input typical of a protected life — aware of apartheid's injustices but not feeling their full impact. Being held by child soldiers, witnessing murder, and experiencing spiritual events he couldn't explain cranked his Haptics to intense. He became someone who could feel the reality of evil and trauma in ways that made his Christian community's simple answers feel inadequate. His heightened sensitivity to life's genuine dangers became part of how he navigates the world.