[ He can’t remember the last time he heard Dimitri laugh. A real laugh. He’d mourned it, along with everything else they thought they’d lost. And while that was only a shadow of what it had once been… it was still something. More than he’d heard in an age.

Amber eyes warm a little and he does reach out now, clapping a hand on Dimitri’s shoulder and giving it a warm squeeze. Even though he’s not yet sure how that will be received. ]

Let me guess. Naked as the day you were born? [ This place had a reputation for awkward arrivals, after all. ] Hopefully you were at least the only one in it at the time. I can’t claim the same, even if I woke in a bed and not the bath.

[ He’d done his best, but he’s pretty sure he hadn’t made a good first impression there. At all. ]