[ he's going to try his best, which is why he probably seems too eager to grasp heero's hand in a light shake before drawing back with curled fingers to give him a soft fistbump.

and that... definitely just... grazes heero's knuckles almost awkwardly because this is not noct – or even iggy or gladio – and that's not what normal people usually do around each other when they're strangers. ]

Um, yeah. [ he does his best to sidestep the awkward. ] I just got here a little while ago. Pretty creepy how they just expect you to find your way without really giving you too much to go on, but.

[ there's a shrug. ] Does that mean you've been here a long time?