[It registers as the comfort that it is when Shiro does that, just as much as he can't deny the matching sense of desperation radiating off him, like they're driving each other to this point without either knowing what the destination is supposed to be. It's confusing and completely painful and... Keith can't process it. He shuts his eyes and takes in how Shiro's hands feel on him, holds him just as tightly in turn.]
Shiro...
[He knows he's helpless in this and can't reverse course, never would, never has in all these years no matter how much life has told him to move on. It's never going to happen. For Shiro, he... There's so much he wants to say, to try to reassure him of, but he's so overwhelmed the words don't quite come yet.]