"Yes," Neil says with a confidence that's only surface deep. He turns his head a little and brushes a kiss against Guy's forehead. It's more casual affection than deep intimacy; they're both from a time where that wasn't such a taboo thing, for men to touch. Darrow, for all that it speaks of kindness, has a lot of rules about casual touching that Neil has had to learn very quickly over the last year and a half.

Here, and with Guy, he doesn't feel like he needs to worry so much. "I like dancing with you. And I feel like I owe you a better night than last time, since I made such a mess of it."