He was silent and still, overwhelmed at the sheer crowd so close and so noisy and he was *bare*. it was a struggle to keep himself from shaking, though he did his best to play the sleeper, leaning on Cloud while the Dark covered him in a sheath of black armor, roiling shadows obscuring his form from view. He listened, but while his ears and eyes tried to take in anything, his mind was filled with everything.
Involuntarily he choked. "Cloud, please, let me go back.