It wasn't a jolt, slipping out of Summer's head like that. A sea salt sky woosh and everything went to calm. Felt a little dim, actually. Compared to what it had been and for so much longer then most people like Summer agreed to sit with him like that.

He'd still felt it. That welling inside her and could guess after something that had hurt her. She'd given him so much already that afternoon.

He wasn't going to push it, even try to snatch her back, though part of him wanted to. Her concern, it just... it made him hurt a little too. And it was sweet.

"OK, this dun make any sense, but Pip's short for Chloris. Really. An she knows. /I/ know she does, but she..."

He still had to get closer to her for this whisper.

"She thinks she needs to take carea me."