[ It applied to more than just this current situation. Who would have thought all of this was all it took to wring real honesty out of him?
But he watches her carefully in return, waiting to see how his answer will be received, unsure if she even registered it at all for a few moments, mind foggy with the static of near-sensory-overload but not quite yet, no. Not quite, and she's remarkably good at keeping him in that narrow, hazy area between the two states, he's almost not sure what to make of it.
And then she gives it to him, and a breath he hadn't realized he was holding escapes him all at once, a little ragged and a little voiced, but nothing to a degree that can be described. And then, as though it were necessary, she seems to work even harder to elicit just that out of him, and he'd thought that the cuff would need to be taken off before he could - in the past it had been by this point anyway - but no, apparently not the case, and it doesn't take long for him to finally, finally topple over, hard and not at all sudden, completely not stifled because he hasn't the reserves or the energy left to bother. His shields fall, as does he, feeling like he's slowly sinking into the mattress after he manages to remember he's on one. ]
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But he watches her carefully in return, waiting to see how his answer will be received, unsure if she even registered it at all for a few moments, mind foggy with the static of near-sensory-overload but not quite yet, no. Not quite, and she's remarkably good at keeping him in that narrow, hazy area between the two states, he's almost not sure what to make of it.
And then she gives it to him, and a breath he hadn't realized he was holding escapes him all at once, a little ragged and a little voiced, but nothing to a degree that can be described. And then, as though it were necessary, she seems to work even harder to elicit just that out of him, and he'd thought that the cuff would need to be taken off before he could - in the past it had been by this point anyway - but no, apparently not the case, and it doesn't take long for him to finally, finally topple over, hard and not at all sudden, completely not stifled because he hasn't the reserves or the energy left to bother. His shields fall, as does he, feeling like he's slowly sinking into the mattress after he manages to remember he's on one. ]