[Smart remarks aren't helping. Akihiko can figure that out pretty fast. But figuring out what to do next isn't coming to him quite as fast. How do you get someone to calm down when they're like this, anyway-?
'And what about when Miki had a nightmare?'
That thought stops him still. And it gives him at least one more option; getting right in front of her, trying to lock eye contact... Even if her eyes are weirding him out right now.]
"Okay. Less shouting. More breathing."
[He tries to phrase that somewhere between a suggestion and an instruction. Walk through the facts, to center on what's going on right now. He just hopes this works like it did for his sister.]
"Yeah. We're real. We've been here all night. Fought a bit where we had to. And you might notice we're all looking a little bit weird and dealing with some changes. We're also NOT dead or bleeding out... So we all got that going for us."
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[Smart remarks aren't helping. Akihiko can figure that out pretty fast. But figuring out what to do next isn't coming to him quite as fast. How do you get someone to calm down when they're like this, anyway-?
'And what about when Miki had a nightmare?'
That thought stops him still. And it gives him at least one more option; getting right in front of her, trying to lock eye contact... Even if her eyes are weirding him out right now.]
"Okay. Less shouting. More breathing."
[He tries to phrase that somewhere between a suggestion and an instruction. Walk through the facts, to center on what's going on right now. He just hopes this works like it did for his sister.]
"Yeah. We're real. We've been here all night. Fought a bit where we had to. And you might notice we're all looking a little bit weird and dealing with some changes. We're also NOT dead or bleeding out... So we all got that going for us."