Redtail Rise I'm walking here!

He still couldn't see very well, but he could feel just fine. When a touch reached out to his shoulder and nudged him, presumably to usher him out of the cloud, he recoiled, and through his coughs wheezed out, "I said I'm fine." He wasn't helpless, he didn't need some stranger to show him out. But the click of his teeth against his sharpened words vibrated through his clenched jaw, and he felt his cheeks burn with an unpleasant warmth.

Where was his head these days? His ears slacked, and he muttered an uncertain - "I mean - I didn't - I'm sorry," before he decided to shut his mouth and move in the direction she'd nudged him toward, with half the expectation the air would clear and he would turn, only to see that she had run away as fast as Larkspur had from him.