Too formal! I'm not some fancy guy you need to do that to! I'm a friend! [Whether Ekkehardt thinks of him like that or not. But that honest laugh? That tells him that, maybe, he's not off there.

He falters in place, going paler for about two seconds before he roughly shakes himself out and slaps on a grin.]

Ah! I don't want to think about that! I've got good friends and good drinks and the best wife in the whole world! Ex-wife. Ex-ish? Ah, but we completed a mission and came back in one piece! And I sang with you! And you sang with me! And really well, might I add. Tonight is a good night and I'm going to let it be so.