He doesn’t know what part pushes him over the edge - the insistence that Ram likes the disruptive hiccups, his strange noises, his ‘lovely’ face which is undoubtedly not that at all - but the softness followed by yet another hiccup makes him outright wince.

“Please don’t.”

For all those moments he’d been dragged out of his head, he feels like it’s taken nothing for him to be knocked back down.

“Just…give me a moment.”