[The awkwardness is noted with a half-smile. No, perhaps Estinien had not changed much at all. It's comforting to see a shred of his old friend there, despite all that had changed.]
Turning around to escort me is hardly necessary, Estinien.
[Yet he'll offer no additional argument to the idea. In truth, there's a warm excitement that spreads through him at the idea of traveling together. It reminds him of bygone days, before politics and heroics had set them on different paths. Certainly not better days, considering the weight both men had carried even then, but familiar nonetheless.]
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Turning around to escort me is hardly necessary, Estinien.
[Yet he'll offer no additional argument to the idea. In truth, there's a warm excitement that spreads through him at the idea of traveling together. It reminds him of bygone days, before politics and heroics had set them on different paths. Certainly not better days, considering the weight both men had carried even then, but familiar nonetheless.]