It felt like Karin's healing chakra, cool and green and soothing.

He'd never thought to apply it to his mind before.

It was telling him it would be okay--that he would be safe. That somehow, it--whatever it was--would get better.

He knew it to be a falsehood, somewhere in him, but he couldn't call up the terror that should have come. Couldn't do anything but bow his head and fall to his knees, the anger he'd been running on in place of energy seeping from him and leaving nothing but a shell behind.