[ The hands coming to rest on either side of him are nice, but what's even far nicer still is that it brings Sylvain closer to keep him there. At first he lets his hands rest on the other man's waist with fingers absently trailing over the fabric beneath his fingers as he closes his eyes in quiet contentment to soak up the attention from familiar lips moving along his jaw.

With it comes the feeling that it's still not close enough yet, something which still comes with a faint tinge of surprise carried by all those years of keeping nearly everyone at arm's length until he no longer had. But in this moment it's only paired with the minor marvel of Sylvain becoming one of those people in (relatively) short time as he moves to loop his arms around the other man's shoulders as he opens his eyes, and that's also swept away when presented with something else to focus on. ]

Are you volunteering to be my first test subject to find out if that's true? That could easily be arranged. [ A hum goes with that like he's thinking about this anywhere past the surface level of another way to tease. ] Just think of it as another element of surprise to everything to make it all the more exciting.