Deep breaths. Ride it out; it's not you, and it's not now. It will end, and you'll still be here.

[It seems to really affect some people, she muses.]

No. I never stayed in one place or with one person for long. [...by Need's standards, anyway.] This was where a pair of his friends lived, who acted as his parents after his mother died and his father went strange. He didn't live with them but he'd visit almost every day, or they would find him.

[also these friends were enormous gryphons.]