[Ryou doesn't need to know what Atem's thinking to feel bad for what he'd exposed. The snakes looked like they had before, when he'd been making those references to Daniel, and what had been taken from him. When he'd been thinking about Steve...

His heart aches for Atem, and he wants pull him in close, hug him tight and tell him it was fine. Ryou would be fine, he'd just heal from this with the next fog and maybe he'd even get his arm back! Don't worry...don't worry...

But he can't. All Ryou can do is sit here, useless and in barely concealed agony because he can't bear this weight for long enough to stop making Atem feel like he has to do something.

When Atem asks him who did it, he shakes his head.]

I only know that he's a demon. He has to be, he looked very much like one and he conjured the flames he used on me, they didn't need to be sourced from anything.

Atem...please, l-let's...let's just put something on these, cover them up, I'll take some of my medicine and we don't have to think about it right now. It's going to be okay.

[It's his fault he got hurt. He's a shade, why didn't he just go intangible sooner? It's his fault for forcing himself to exist on the very edge of both worlds.]