"You did that. I'd almost thought you were allergic to it or something," he remarks, recovering his composure a little as the topic of conversation draws him away from his fears.

A little.

"But yeah. Huh." He thinks for a moment. "You think it might have been him - doing whatever - that helped... take the barriers down, maybe? There weren't any restrictions. Any walls. Other people have had them. You don't."

Not that he noticed, anyway.