[He meets her eyes, and he smiles that she'd look at him again. If there's anything different there it's a softness, an ease in him that hasn't been there in all the months he's been with ALASTAIR. It turns out he'd missed being intimate; holding and being held.]

If we've nothing else to do, no other engagements to keep us. [Knowing a little about Japanese culture, he can understand why she'd ask.]

We might talk of battle, and strategy, or history... [His tone and look indicate that he actually means they could talk about none of those things. Indeed, the way he ghosts his fingers over her side is very deliberate, intended to tease.]