[Her hand on his shoulder should feel the shaking even better, for it doesn't stop under her touch. Letting it stay makes for a good medium between the impulse to run or latch on. Every part of the life he knew has just been ripped up and away from him, and he hasn't seen her in so long, but who's to say he couldn't lose her, too?]
[His hands cup his face as he tries to control his breathing. Don't panic, don't panic, she doesn't deserve to deal with that.]
Everyone's gone--or not gone, but not here, and no one knows anything about what happened there. And I knew this could happen, but I stupidly thought that somehow fate would spare me having to get whisked away a second time when I am possibly the only person my friend even told about this. And of course you don't know the first thing of what I'm saying! I would make more sense if I had put my sponge through a meat grinder, but here I am babbling away in my knit together shitshow of a hive that can't decide between two worlds when I'm not in either of them anymore, and I can't go back because now I have to save this place too.
he'll be less of a disaster eventually (probably), he's just super overwhelmed right now
[Her hand on his shoulder should feel the shaking even better, for it doesn't stop under her touch. Letting it stay makes for a good medium between the impulse to run or latch on. Every part of the life he knew has just been ripped up and away from him, and he hasn't seen her in so long, but who's to say he couldn't lose her, too?]
[His hands cup his face as he tries to control his breathing. Don't panic, don't panic, she doesn't deserve to deal with that.]
Everyone's gone--or not gone, but not here, and no one knows anything about what happened there. And I knew this could happen, but I stupidly thought that somehow fate would spare me having to get whisked away a second time when I am possibly the only person my friend even told about this. And of course you don't know the first thing of what I'm saying! I would make more sense if I had put my sponge through a meat grinder, but here I am babbling away in my knit together shitshow of a hive that can't decide between two worlds when I'm not in either of them anymore, and I can't go back because now I have to save this place too.