Em didn't know any more about what Val was doing than Jag did, but she trusted him to do it. There wasn't much she wouldn't do to help Jag, and being there for him was the easiest thing she could do.

"Usually it's the other way around," she said, mostly just to say something as she joined them. "With you the one grounding me."

Touch helped her during those times, and Jag had relaxed a little earlier when she'd tried, so she laid her hand on his back again, warm and steady, rubbing over too tense muscles.