Even if he can't ask Kai for an easy answer out of this, there's a kind of comfort in the solidarity of neither of them having any idea of what to do. Just a couple of clueless kids, trapped in a nightmarescape.

He nods slightly, closing his eyes tightly and letting himself simply focus on this distraction for now. At Kai's cue, he draws in a very shaky breath, one that he can't quite hold on to for more than a beat before exhaling. It was. an attempt.