It's a bit embarrassing, the intimacy of it, especially after spending two months clinging to Edgard for warmth. He'll never speak ill of Edgard again, not after what they've been through, but it's actively strange having someone touch him after all this, and a bit of color comes to Benedict's cheeks in spite of himself as he loosens his collar.

There's a scar there, for the record, quite unmistakably from a throat-slashing that was healed rapidly and incorrectly. It's ugly; he wears high-necked clothes for a reason.