[ But he loves that method of dealing with this. Patchwork, okay, he's pretty good at surviving and that's typically a lot of how that tends to work. Anyway, he's pretty sure you can't fix whatever the hell all of this is just by... Well. He's not totally sure you can fix it at all. It feels sometimes like he's just traded one set of dysfunctionality for another, altogether different one.
There's not a whole lot of response to her touches right now, but his hands twist towards hers fractionally, at least. He closes his eyes for a few long moments, consciously working on continuing to have breathing that's as even as possible, and just letting her words wash over him in the meantime. Words are good, talking is good. People don't talk to him at his worst moments, at all the times he's been the most frightened of things, and he wonders occasionally if it isn't partially that circumstance that makes them so.
It takes a little while longer to reply than it would normally, but that in itself doesn't seem that unusual right now. ] High altitude suit. More well pressurized, functional with thinner atmospheres, more resistant to higher Gs. [ There's certainly not an obvious reason he'd be working on things that lead to potentially working better in space, or closer to it. Definitely not. ]
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There's not a whole lot of response to her touches right now, but his hands twist towards hers fractionally, at least. He closes his eyes for a few long moments, consciously working on continuing to have breathing that's as even as possible, and just letting her words wash over him in the meantime. Words are good, talking is good. People don't talk to him at his worst moments, at all the times he's been the most frightened of things, and he wonders occasionally if it isn't partially that circumstance that makes them so.
It takes a little while longer to reply than it would normally, but that in itself doesn't seem that unusual right now. ] High altitude suit. More well pressurized, functional with thinner atmospheres, more resistant to higher Gs. [ There's certainly not an obvious reason he'd be working on things that lead to potentially working better in space, or closer to it. Definitely not. ]