[That contact is comforting, enough so that talking about it isn't as unpleasant as he'd thought. He allows her to stroke his hair for a few moments before he lifts his hands up to catch her wrists gently, then guide her hands down to rest them over both sides of his chest, where the spikes had pierced.]
Here.
[He's not going to tell her just how big they were-- that's one detail that she doesn't need to know.]
[Action]
[That contact is comforting, enough so that talking about it isn't as unpleasant as he'd thought. He allows her to stroke his hair for a few moments before he lifts his hands up to catch her wrists gently, then guide her hands down to rest them over both sides of his chest, where the spikes had pierced.]
Here.
[He's not going to tell her just how big they were-- that's one detail that she doesn't need to know.]