I know.

[his smile settling into fondness as he reaches out to touch the other man]

I feel quite pampered, I promise you.

[it wouldn’t be a bad thing, to hold up here a day or two before trying to venture into the city. It will probably be easier now than the first time Linneus had arrived, but he still remembers the culture shock he had experienced first settling in.]

...has very much changed in my absence? Or has it all been much the same?