[That... went better than he expected for it to, which is honestly surprising. But he's going to hold him tight for now, nothing he can't escape, but enough to perhaps be some kind of relief? He doesn't really know, okay, he's just going off of some kind of instinct or another.

The paper causes him to shift to actually look at it, instead just having his cheek against his head, but this is fine, he's been in weirder positions.]

Is it like what happened at the bonfire? Like they're memories that are connected to you but also don't feel like they are? [It sounds crazy, probably, but he can't help but put the two things together.] ... With the timing, I wonder if it's related.