[She knows that this is going to be awful for him. She would have told him that it was okay for him to go back to his room, wait in the hall, go anywhere but this cramped space--but she knew he would just ignore her. Tell her that he'd be fine, that he wanted to be there (a lie, of course, on more than one level). She holds his hand tightly for a moment, and then releases so he can send whatever message he was planning to.]
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