It's easy to fall into the silence. For anyone else, it would probably just seem like he's asleep. In fact, it would be normal for him to just... drift off. He's known to do it.

But then the thoughts he'd been trying to drink to forget come back. That vision from Ignis' memories, how all twelve of his ancestors would... and then his father...

It's a good thing that his head is resting on the table and his arms block out the sight, he figures.

"...Yeah. In this case." Because it wasn't capitalized- I mean, what? "The 'glaives of rulers past'..." He says, waving it off. "In this case, it was the Sword of the Tall."