[Clarine no don't touch him, he's a peasant, too lowly, too undeserving of this attention. His shoulders are stiff at her touch, and he doesn't lean into her or anything like that, but after a few seconds, that tense set to his shoulders relaxes slightly.
He's trying to stop crying, really, he is, but those deep, gasping breaths of his aren't helping much at all. It's going to take a good several minutes for him to stop, and that's mostly because he's completely out of tears to shed. And even though he's still shaking, when he speaks, it... sounds almost normal. Almost, because his voice is hoarse and quiet, but it definitely sounds like him and not that monotone he'd had yesterday.]
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He's trying to stop crying, really, he is, but those deep, gasping breaths of his aren't helping much at all. It's going to take a good several minutes for him to stop, and that's mostly because he's completely out of tears to shed. And even though he's still shaking, when he speaks, it... sounds almost normal. Almost, because his voice is hoarse and quiet, but it definitely sounds like him and not that monotone he'd had yesterday.]
...Thanks, Clarine.