[The words felt like someone else, someone far away from all this, was speaking them.]

...I... know what that's like.

[Reality slammed back in, and Aqua exhaled, ducking his head and folding his arms over top of it.]

Shit. Can we pretend I didn't say that? It's... [He wanted to say 'embarrassing,' or continue with some other word that would reduce the weight of that statement, but his exhausted brain gave him little more than static.] ...It's... I just meant I know the feeling.