[Like seeing Pidge when he'd first woke. It's like a punch. Painful and shamefully glad to hear that voice. Know that voice. It's all he can do to keep from parting his shields, tearing down the stars and pulling his teammate in. It's too hard not to. And his feet move before they check in with his brain. Reaching out for him in the physical. Disbelief and some kind of awful relief on his face.]
[The walls stay. Flickering things of stars and planets and clouds. But he can't not reach out for him. Not when the emotions on the edges of those stars feel like they do.]
Hey. It's okay. You're okay.
[Fall into old patterns, old habits that couldn't die even if he tried.]
I've been here for a long time. And I know that sounds impossible. But it's... how this place works.
RIP
[Like seeing Pidge when he'd first woke. It's like a punch. Painful and shamefully glad to hear that voice. Know that voice. It's all he can do to keep from parting his shields, tearing down the stars and pulling his teammate in. It's too hard not to. And his feet move before they check in with his brain. Reaching out for him in the physical. Disbelief and some kind of awful relief on his face.]
[The walls stay. Flickering things of stars and planets and clouds. But he can't not reach out for him. Not when the emotions on the edges of those stars feel like they do.]
Hey. It's okay. You're okay.
[Fall into old patterns, old habits that couldn't die even if he tried.]
I've been here for a long time. And I know that sounds impossible. But it's... how this place works.