Unaware he'd actually been holding his breath, he exhaled with a startled blink. "That's both reassuring and unsettling at once."
Still, he doesn't move, and his breathing goes steady, partly because he falls into trained breathing habits from home. Ryo looks young, in the sense of looking like a junior around Sizhui's age, and it's not like they're people who avoid danger. Hearing this is an inherent danger is more puzzling than anything else.
But also, healing is not generally when one should keep talking after hearing it is ridiculously dangerous.
... Thus Ryo gets temporarily silent Jingyi, whose largest response becomes the regular twitch of the tip of his tail behind him on the floor. The teenagers on the sofa are staring wide eyed, watching and forgetting to drink from their glasses.
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Still, he doesn't move, and his breathing goes steady, partly because he falls into trained breathing habits from home. Ryo looks young, in the sense of looking like a junior around Sizhui's age, and it's not like they're people who avoid danger. Hearing this is an inherent danger is more puzzling than anything else.
But also, healing is not generally when one should keep talking after hearing it is ridiculously dangerous.
... Thus Ryo gets temporarily silent Jingyi, whose largest response becomes the regular twitch of the tip of his tail behind him on the floor. The teenagers on the sofa are staring wide eyed, watching and forgetting to drink from their glasses.