[ He chuckles a little at Shiro's urge to touch the clouds, a soft trickle of warmth as it brings up the memory of Sam doing the same. For a moment he's caught in it as if he was back there, mist through his fingers and Riley's laugh in his ear. And then his hand curls around the challenge coin in the pocket of his coat as he brings his focus to it - counting the number of ridges, noticing the way his skin warms the metal, thumbing over the letters and numbers and reading them to himself.
It wasn't a real flashback, and he didn't need the coin to pull himself out of the memory, but he'd done it more for demonstration than anything else. To let Shiro see exactly how he uses it. ]
It's called grounding. It anchors you in what's real, what's right now, and pulls you out of the past.
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It wasn't a real flashback, and he didn't need the coin to pull himself out of the memory, but he'd done it more for demonstration than anything else. To let Shiro see exactly how he uses it. ]
It's called grounding. It anchors you in what's real, what's right now, and pulls you out of the past.