[ The yell barely registers, and the tensing earns a faint cringe from him but not much else. It's not enough to really bring him up short, and so there's another moment of warping and pulling and gathering up the resulting fragments -- then he's done, it's over, and he's back to adjusting code and vibe. They've returned to the shallower aspects of the process. He's more forceful than before, strained by Joshua's pain, but the worst is done. ]
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