J'mon offered their hands just as easily as before, holding firm and steady. There was no great difficulty in telling when someone - especially someone as emotionally forthcoming as Eddie had been so far - needed that little extra security. And it was hardly a sacrifice. If anything, J'mon felt as though they were getting the most out of this: a gentle hand in his and a story that only one person in the world could tell.
And they listened. Through each turn and deeper into the darkness of the past, they listened. They hoped, too, that in telling it Eddie would be able to chip away a little more of the horror of it until it ceased to be a thing that haunted him and was simply a thing that had happened. If nothing bad happened to him - and it wouldn't - then the tale would lose some of its power. It was no easy tale to tell either. J'mon might not have fully understood all of the contexts but it was similar enough to things they knew from their own world that they could find motes of understanding within it. The fear, the pain... every bit of it was important to feel. J'mon took none of it for granted.
As Eddie shifted closer, they wrapped an arm around his shoulders and pulled him even nearer, guarding him from everything beyond the two of them. At times it was easy to forget J'mon's age - they looked all at once ageless and quite young - but the millennia of experience came through then.
When he'd finished, J'mon gently lifted his hand to brush through Eddie's hair and planted a soft, sweet kiss right on the arch of his cheekbone. It was still chaste. Meant to be a comfort more than anything else. Then they wrapped their arm around Eddie's shoulder again.
"Thank you," they murmured, "for trusting me enough to share this with me. I hope to be able to find a way to return the gesture, someday. Until then know that I will do everything in my power to make certain that this thing you have faced will never find you here. And whatever you need from me, is yours." It was not a promise J'mon made lightly, or often. But it was one they meant.