[He keeps his grip around Jacob's hand tight. Not to the point of painful, but tight enough to keep him from vanishing like some part in the static feels is still possible. He knows it's not, but knowing and feeling are two different things.

He's...keenly aware Jacob's not said what Chris had assumed he would. Of course, he's not pressing either. Maybe it's for the best he doesn't, not yet. He hadn't even wanted to see the possibility his perception of Jacob's feelings was wrong before, he was probably as ready to hear it as Jacob was to say it.

Besides...a more treacherous part of him reasoned that a few days of cooling emotions and tensions and Jacob's fear of losing him, might allow the feeling to cool as well. To prove it didn't actually run as deep as Jacob thought. That doesn't mean Chris can't be a masochist.]

Let's see...well, there's this saying you see, in the Moonsea, something to the effect of kissing a hurt to make it better. Suppose you could start there.