He didn't really like contact with other people. Sometimes, it was ok, he'd hugged Karkat before, and Aradia, and Feferi nonstop, he'd touched Terezi and Kanaya's shoulders and bumped up against people and he still was not exactly completely at ease. And he liked it even less that now he had to touch people just to make these powers work; it felt unsafe to have to be that close to a person to have any sort of effect.

His fingers closed around her hand, palm pressed to hers, his eyes closed in focus.

"Later, yeah." How did he fucking do this, he'd had it before with Feferi, it was like a mental switch somewhere and it'd just go flowing from him into her, and it would-

Yeah. There. Just like that.