[It is, as always, easier this way. As much as he had used his flippant nature to deflect matters both serious and benign, now Ardyn deploys them to buy himself time to process all that's happened. Should he stand here and attempt to do so now, they could be speaking for hours, and there is little more that he wishes to do than to ease this newly aching body of his. The trek to the city seems long for a man no longer immortal.

He makes a noise of consideration, even if he's already made up his mind.]

And why should I mind after all we've been through? If you recall, we have shared a living space once before. I'll hardly turn my nose up to doing so again. You may fill me in on all that's happened since you've been gone; I'm sure we have many stories to exchange to while away the hours of the long night.