Well, it's not held up with magic, or it would have flattened out when I arrived, like the front part!

[Talking about mundane, light stuff is fine. This is good. This is nice. This is--

He turns around as he's lifting the blankets out of the way to get into bed, and he spots that the collar is still on Ryou's neck. It really does look nice on him! It's a cute accessory, but it can't be the most comfortable, and he's completely failed to forget a single offhand comment involving bells made during a combined birthday-nameday party for four months.

If it's.

If it's uncomfortable, Ryou can take it off. It's possible taking it off would be more uncomfortable, since right now it's comforting him about the scar that happened when his head was bitten off, Atem, be considerate of other people's deaths. Some people sleep in collars to cope. He did, when he woke up with what he thought were bite marks on his own neck.

So, instead, he keeps the conversation up, as he climbs into bed.]

I guess whatever happened to it when I was alive changed it permanently, instead of it being an ongoing magic effect...

[They had discussed his magic hair as children.]