Heh. All right, then I respectfully request that you at least sleep somewhere that isn't the dungeon floor.

[His smile softens considerably at the next bit. Alexei's...not wrong that things at the beginning were definitely more out of obligation than anything. But they wouldn't be in this position if things hadn't changed.]

I'm glad to hear that. [...] And despite how things turned out, I'm grateful to have had the opportunity to spend time with you here. From the sound of things, we might not ever have been able to get this far if it weren't for being brought here.

[Which sounds silly to say when he's standing in a cell, awaiting his death. But it doesn't negate all of the truly good things that happened.]