[Charles calms that too, gently diverting the emotion and smoothing it all away to something more level. It's relatively fast, but it's still a gradual taper off instead of just guillotining the emotion, and Charles keeps a hand on Zane's shoulder, rubbing his thumb along the muscle there soothingly.
Maybe it's just instinct at this point, but he's also projecting that Zane's not alone, that he's here and he isn't going anywhere, that it's okay if he needs to lean on him for the time being.]
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Maybe it's just instinct at this point, but he's also projecting that Zane's not alone, that he's here and he isn't going anywhere, that it's okay if he needs to lean on him for the time being.]