[Deep breath. The pounding of his heart in his chest, the tingling in his fingertips, the tremble in his voice - those are all the slow build he wants to ignore, that he needs to deescalate before it starts off in earnest.
The breath rasps in his throat, fingertips digging into the skin of his temples. The stab of it might hold him, might ground him, just for a moment.]
It's not a - it's, it's a symptom. [Is that the best way to describe it? That little freak who hijacks his body and runs amok with it, just to make things that much more difficult for someone who didn't really, did not really, need more shit going wrong in his life.]
It's a symptom. That's why it's - that makes it treatable.
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[Deep breath. The pounding of his heart in his chest, the tingling in his fingertips, the tremble in his voice - those are all the slow build he wants to ignore, that he needs to deescalate before it starts off in earnest.
The breath rasps in his throat, fingertips digging into the skin of his temples. The stab of it might hold him, might ground him, just for a moment.]
It's not a - it's, it's a symptom. [Is that the best way to describe it? That little freak who hijacks his body and runs amok with it, just to make things that much more difficult for someone who didn't really, did not really, need more shit going wrong in his life.]
It's a symptom. That's why it's - that makes it treatable.