[Lalli does unfurl when Cho asks, but he's clearly not relaxed. His hands remain over his ears, and his eyes remain closed, and he still looks like he's trying to shut out the entire world around him.
He doesn't react to hearing Cho's half of the conversation--most of it is muffled anyway. He doesn't react at all, in fact, until he hears something bizarre: the sound of rain and wind through trees, something he hasn't heard in--months, now. Not since he was brought here, to this place with its artificial walls and the endless buzz of electric lighting.
Something in him instantly relaxes. He hadn't realized how much he'd missed it.
Cho is still on the phone, and so she can only interact through pantomime; Lalli doesn't know where the sound comes from or how, but he comes to understand that the strange device is meant to go into his ears. When he complies, the sound of rain is all he can hear, and for a moment--
For a moment, if he closes his eyes, he can truly believe he's back in the forest around Keuruu--or even Saimaa, before disaster struck. The lukewarm water of the bath becomes a pool he found at the base of a river, the rain the same that beat against the walls of his home as a child. It's... incredibly calming.
He doesn't say a word to Cho since, but he slips into unconsciousness in record time.]
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He doesn't react to hearing Cho's half of the conversation--most of it is muffled anyway. He doesn't react at all, in fact, until he hears something bizarre: the sound of rain and wind through trees, something he hasn't heard in--months, now. Not since he was brought here, to this place with its artificial walls and the endless buzz of electric lighting.
Something in him instantly relaxes. He hadn't realized how much he'd missed it.
Cho is still on the phone, and so she can only interact through pantomime; Lalli doesn't know where the sound comes from or how, but he comes to understand that the strange device is meant to go into his ears. When he complies, the sound of rain is all he can hear, and for a moment--
For a moment, if he closes his eyes, he can truly believe he's back in the forest around Keuruu--or even Saimaa, before disaster struck. The lukewarm water of the bath becomes a pool he found at the base of a river, the rain the same that beat against the walls of his home as a child. It's... incredibly calming.
He doesn't say a word to Cho since, but he slips into unconsciousness in record time.]