#probably!!!

+ some closeups of each pair below the cut

You fell short, and you went too far (Don't be so hard on yourself) Yeah, life is just a shooting star (Don't be so hard on yourself)

Varian couldn’t say how long he’s been here. With all the sensations of the physical world stripped away, there was nothing left to tell him that time was passing. It could have been a day, it could have been years, there was no difference anymore. There was nothing to see, nothing to feel, only his own discordant humming for stimulation.

It’d been a long time since what he was humming had any meaning to him. He thought the tune had probably meant something once, but now it was just what he did to keep himself sane.

Assuming it wasn’t just a symptom of the contrary.

He was sure he was loosing the melody.

The change was slow, so slow he didn’t even recognize it. If he was focusing on anything other than keeping the song going, he might have recognized the sensation of touch slowly being returned to him, small pinpricks of sound reaching his ears where there had only been crushing silence.

He only realized something was different when the burning in his lungs reached a point that told him he could once again feel pain.