That's fine, we can huddle for warmth, groom each other, I'll bring you vermin while you sleep.

( It is absurd, but it's also pleasant and meandering, something silly. He never played games of pretend like this as a child and he leans into it fully grown without a care. He hums as he drinks more wine, shifting, and then whiny -. )

Let me put my head in your lap, Ah-Xu, I'm tired.

( Not tired enough to sleep, but enough to be a brat, surely. )