[The sudden touch startles him, sure - but it's the voice that comes afterwards that he zeroes in on. Regardless of the bizarre situation he's found himself in, the person outside the body bag seems genuinely terrified, and Jonathan would be remiss if he didn't try to reassure him almost immediately.
It's just that doing that involves saying something out loud that in spite of the monsters he's faced, the danger he's overcome, might be one of the scariest things he's ever done.]
I'm alive!
[He is. And if he's going to accept that, he has to continue making fear his own.]
I didn't mean to startle you, but...well, as you can probably tell, I had little choice in this matter.
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It's just that doing that involves saying something out loud that in spite of the monsters he's faced, the danger he's overcome, might be one of the scariest things he's ever done.]
I'm alive!
[He is. And if he's going to accept that, he has to continue making fear his own.]
I didn't mean to startle you, but...well, as you can probably tell, I had little choice in this matter.