He wraps Grantaire up in a hug and gives him a kiss. "I love you, sweetheart. I -- you'll stop back by later, right? I think you two would get along, I'd like it if we could all, y'know, spend some time together¹. And, ah," Here he pauses, and looks back at Ariadne. His achingly beautiful wife, who he has mourned for longer than entire civilizations last, who he has again for only one pitifully short day. "I'm -- I'm going to need you tomorrow. I don't think I'll be able to bear it a third time."



1. He isn't, actually, intending for this to be a veiled reference to having a threesome. He's not opposed to that though. But he does actually mean just spend some time together. Unless they want to have a threesome, which, again, he is not opposed to.