[Grant breathes out, slow and shaky, and lets his hands drop to Claude's shoulders; the contact from Claude's hands and forehead immediately go to start grounding him, making it possible to at least start getting a handle on himself, before the change in Claude's voice even fully registers.
At his first point, though, it takes some work not to let his next breath come out as a guilty whine.] ...But I would have done it anyway. If it were just me, I probably still would have told him you guys would be okay with it - only because I already knew it was true, but-- [Grant swallows hard, quietly giving up on that sentence. He's sure Claude gets the idea, and with every second there's more bubbling to the surface that he feels like he's going to have to say.
He... thinks he might be starting to understand why he broke down so fast.
In the meantime, though, Claude sure is saying something here that sounds to Grant like it... can't possibly be the case, regardless of how much he may want it to be. And that confusion... probably shows on his face. But... it is Claude.] Wh-- are you sure? I mean, I-- what-- what do I do, then?
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At his first point, though, it takes some work not to let his next breath come out as a guilty whine.] ...But I would have done it anyway. If it were just me, I probably still would have told him you guys would be okay with it - only because I already knew it was true, but-- [Grant swallows hard, quietly giving up on that sentence. He's sure Claude gets the idea, and with every second there's more bubbling to the surface that he feels like he's going to have to say.
He... thinks he might be starting to understand why he broke down so fast.
In the meantime, though, Claude sure is saying something here that sounds to Grant like it... can't possibly be the case, regardless of how much he may want it to be. And that confusion... probably shows on his face. But... it is Claude.] Wh-- are you sure? I mean, I-- what-- what do I do, then?