It was so loud. Screaming at him, demanding his attention, and it was so loud, and it hurt, and he couldn’t concentrate on anything but the noise in his head.
Host was clutching his hair, curled up on his bed. It was so loud, it hurt. Futures unraveling in his mind’s eye, too many options that could happen, would happen, may happen. Simple options like a yes or no, and a whole new reality came forth from it.
Seeing the possibilities of egos dying, killing each other, protecting each other, threatening each other, so many things that could happen. And it was loud, it wanted out of his head, and he was talking, but he wasn’t fast enough to get everything in his head out.
He violently flinched back when Dark touched him, raised his head by his chin. So many possibilities of what could happen -Dark could kiss him, could hit him, could talk, could stay silent, could- “Silence.”.
Host shut up, knowing, though unable to grasp the thought about it, that he was talking. Dark pulled off Host’s bandage, soaked with blood. He was saying what he was doing, and what he was going to do. And it calmed Host’s head, because if he knew what would happen, and not what could happen, he didn’t need to narrate it all.
So Dark cleaned Host’s face, and his hands, and re-wrapped his eyes. Talking all the while what he was going to do, before doing it.
In the end Dark was sitting with Host, holding the blind man close to his chest. Carding his fingers through Host’s hair, not commenting on it’s ungelled state, showing its curly nature. Telling him what there would be for dinner later, and what they’d do after.
And Host’s head quieted down, until it was a pleasant background noise.
Dark noticed when Host had fallen asleep, sighing softly. The man slept too little anyways, and he was glad to have been able to help at least.