Keeping busy is really the only tried and true method of dealing with brain issues that Soldat has ever found useful, even if the "busy" is just making origami animals or cooking someone dinner. Hands and eyes and thoughts at least partially occupied seems to quiet things down.

So they bring over a damp, warm towel for her eyes, or any other part of her face that hurts now, while the pan and water heat up, and return to the kitchen to butter bread and slice cheese. And they ask the dumbest of dumb questions, because it makes no sense to them. "Why. You're a great person. You'd think you would have plenty of friends."