"You know you're not making it easier to stop myself from coming over and hugging you," he points out, but the dry comment is a little bit thick in his throat.

But he looks down at his coffee, and he's... quiet for a minute. In a way Eiffel rarely is, except when something is weighing on him.

"..I had to make that call once, you know," he comments quietly. "It's not quite the same, sure, but... yeah. The good old Two Guards puzzle, except both of them were telling the truth."