Shannon felt out the position, moving now to put one hand against Eli's cheek to make sure his attention wasn't wandering around elsewhere. Even if he wasn't looking at him, Shannon wanted him to remain aware of his presence no matter what else was going on inside his head. "Birds aren't so bad," he said, giving a small smile to encourage Eli on. He was focusing, working out what few of his thoughts that he could. "They like to sing, too. Like this."

His song started back up again. While the scent was filtering throughout the room, Shannon used his free hand to feel along Eli's arm and began to knead at it, different from his usual motions. This was a massage, something else to keep him from floating back into his head. Another anchor point. Touch, smell, sound. He was just going to hope for sight although he couldn't rightly account for that one. While Eli had used Shannon's senses to draw him into their own world where nothing else mattered, Shannon hoped that his more grounded attempt at the same could help calm Eli until things started to fall back into place no matter how that was going to happen.