[This whole thing would have been horrific on various levels, really; Schwann pressing up against him like that is perhaps surprisingly nice, and it's easy enough for him to settle into holding him close, and... This is going to be deeply awkward in the morning, he can tell already, but that seems like a problem they can handle then.

He'll let one of his hands shift back into what he was doing before, playing with Schwann's hair gently.]

...It's as I said. I don't imagine we'll have any chance to do this outside of this place.

[There are so many reasons for that.]

I certainly don't regret having done it.