• doesn't talk around you, feels no need to fill the void with speech
•simply chooses to be in your presence and exist, his shoulders seem so much less tense and he keeps sneaking glances at you
•will silently offer you some of his lunch if you eat together
- he starts to really laugh around you, and feels more comfortable doing little things like eating and drinking around you with his mouth showing under his mask, or lifting the bottom half of his mask when he has a hard work out and.