He blinks at the sudden touch, and it's a fight not to tense. No one has been so casually up close with him...ever. not without permission.

But he doesn't tense, and doesn't push him off. He half-smiles instead.

'It looks like the noise in my head.'

Screaming with silent noise, tumultuous, never-ending. Bright. Enormous. Looking at this matches what's inside, and calms him down.