[ it helps a lot. and there's a moment of disbelief, because - he could have done that? he could have just as easily done that. wow. proof this really messed him up. ]

...Hard to imagine it happening to you, doc.

[ a soft laugh, with no humor to it. ]

It just... It scares me. [ he turns the hairpin over in his hands, taking deep breaths. ] I don't want it to happen again. Not whatever this was, not refracting - any of it.