I'm glad. I know it was probably weird to ask something like this...when I should probably be sleeping.

[Ryou scoots a little further back, so he can make sure the feathers are properly dried from the back now. It's a little bit of a faster job on that side, he finds.]

I...I wanted to spend some time with you, and fix you up. It must be boring, to stay awake so long.

[Ryou finds the times that he sleep to be a wasted moments now. He's a little jealous that Atem gets to stay awake all the time, because that's time they could spend together!

...Which is a little cringy, he imagines. He doesn't own all of Atem's time. He doesn't want to! But now, especially after finding out that Atem had gone looking for trouble and found it, to the point that he'd died...well. Ryou just needs to settle his nerves. He needs to feel like he's doing enough, wolf instincts or no.]

This side's done. I can do the other one now!

[He's happy about it, enough that his ears are raised.]