"Thank you." Regis had no idea what or where that was, or why an element of that dream had not disappeared with the rest of it, but.

But Regis had been trained since childhood to know and manage people, and while those blue eyes were strange to him, the look in them was not. His own confusion didn't matter, after all, it was only a matter of time and information to fix it. The upset of the other man - his son? He was going to have a son! Maybe? - was immediate and. His fault.

"You all right, Noctis?"