[When Eda puts her hands on him, she's going to notice that he immediately tenses up, and it doesn't relax even when she laughs and speaks. His expression is all kinds of jumbled up, and it's not quite his journey over the warps that was causing his pale pallor.
For a moment he struggles over what to say to her. He wants to explode, first off. Will it? WILL IT?! Belos is still out there, the Collector has all their friends, Flapjack is dead, they were trapped in the human realm for weeks, and she doesn't KNOW all that! Where would he even begin?? How could he begin? There's too much to tell her and it all wants to come out and once and they're just stuck here, despite reassurances he's gotten that everything will wait for them back home, it still doesn't stop his thoughts from constantly ruminating on- everything, from about his trip into Belos's mind onward.
What his reaction in all but literally trickles in as a tremble goes through him, then his face screws up. Sure he doesn't know Eda at all, hell Luz didn't even tell him many stories about her for all their time in the human realm; she didn't want to talk, clearly, and he didn't want to press. But Eda is here, and she's real, and she's a piece of the Boiling Isles even as unfamiliar as she is, and he never forgot her reaching her hand out to him after returning from the mindscape-
So there's one, two hitches of breath and he buries himself in her, wrapping his arms around her tight. Oh Titan but it's been so much...! And it's hardly a moment or two before Pancake, still out, comes over and carefully rests the side of their mask against Hunter's back, sensing his upset.]
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For a moment he struggles over what to say to her. He wants to explode, first off. Will it? WILL IT?! Belos is still out there, the Collector has all their friends, Flapjack is dead, they were trapped in the human realm for weeks, and she doesn't KNOW all that! Where would he even begin?? How could he begin? There's too much to tell her and it all wants to come out and once and they're just stuck here, despite reassurances he's gotten that everything will wait for them back home, it still doesn't stop his thoughts from constantly ruminating on- everything, from about his trip into Belos's mind onward.
What his reaction in all but literally trickles in as a tremble goes through him, then his face screws up. Sure he doesn't know Eda at all, hell Luz didn't even tell him many stories about her for all their time in the human realm; she didn't want to talk, clearly, and he didn't want to press. But Eda is here, and she's real, and she's a piece of the Boiling Isles even as unfamiliar as she is, and he never forgot her reaching her hand out to him after returning from the mindscape-
So there's one, two hitches of breath and he buries himself in her, wrapping his arms around her tight. Oh Titan but it's been so much...! And it's hardly a moment or two before Pancake, still out, comes over and carefully rests the side of their mask against Hunter's back, sensing his upset.]