[He takes those signs that he did right by her this time, and he relaxes into her embrace, nodding against her shoulder and resting quietly like that for a little while. It's strange, but he actually does feel better, now that it's out there. There'd been something fundamentally missing from where they'd started, and he's glad they managed to get here somehow. And Pyra's happier to have had the support she deserves, he can tell by the way she holds him. Nothing was truly resolved, the conflict still exists, for both of them. Still, he feels more... satisfied.

Huh.]

Pyra, um...

[He draws back a bit, looking more calm but still somewhat uneased.]

Era talked about therapy. And she's confirmed it was Stark who was supposed to be helping her. ["Helping", in the biggest of fake quotation marks ever.] She told me she wasn't going anymore, but she sent me some stuff she was gonna self-study with, in case it helped me. I... it was kind of a lot. [He's done heavy reading before, but not like this.] And if it's the method they're using... [They're not going great so far.] ...Can I get your opinion on it?

[The methodology feels clumsy to him. There are references and through lines to things he has no pathway to comprehending, no expertise to parse the information. He's certain she's more knowledgeable than him overall, so maybe she can get something out of it that he can't.

He's... also pretty sure that self-therapy doesn't work. It's hard not to be skeptical of this.]