He's kind of quiet for a moment at that, but it's not the same sort of silence from before, where he'd more or less locked up; this is likely a bit more familiar, the sort of thing that happens while he's trying to choose an answer to a question he doesn't particularly like.]
I'd assume so. Something happened in my head as soon as it touched me. Intrusive thoughts, I suppose you would call them - they were extremely negative, some of them things I've thought before, some of them things I've had said to me. Vague memories of things I haven't thought about in some time and are best forgotten.
I couldn't stop it, and there didn't seem to be much point in trying. My mistake, I suppose.
[It's a little disjointed, but at least it's an explanation; his tone is even, at least, and he's clearly trying to keep himself as calm as possible. He's succeeding, for the most part.]
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He's kind of quiet for a moment at that, but it's not the same sort of silence from before, where he'd more or less locked up; this is likely a bit more familiar, the sort of thing that happens while he's trying to choose an answer to a question he doesn't particularly like.]
I'd assume so. Something happened in my head as soon as it touched me. Intrusive thoughts, I suppose you would call them - they were extremely negative, some of them things I've thought before, some of them things I've had said to me. Vague memories of things I haven't thought about in some time and are best forgotten.
I couldn't stop it, and there didn't seem to be much point in trying. My mistake, I suppose.
[It's a little disjointed, but at least it's an explanation; his tone is even, at least, and he's clearly trying to keep himself as calm as possible. He's succeeding, for the most part.]