[Thinking - and in Robert's case, hoping, a little - because he wants to be open, wants to be honest... especially with somebody like Helios who he can really call a friend.

Fifteen degrees Celsius, or so. It'd normally be something downright terrifying to feel a hand so cold - like Helios was dead or something - but Robert doesn't mind at all beyond worrying about his friend's health. And as far as Robert's concerned, if Helios is healthy and safe, his external temperature doesn't matter... but that also doesn't mean he won't try to warm that hand a little with his own slender fingers, embracing them with his own almost shyly.]

... Yes, you have. You showed me that magic was objectively real here, in Luceti, and your magic experiment gave me the hypothesis of separate physics for people here. It... has gone a long way towards providing explanations for the strange idiosyncracies here.

Without it, I fear I might have continued to think this place was like Terra in terms of physics, and that I was merely deluding myself somehow.

That, a-and... and you comforted me during the first experiment I witnessed.