[There's a faint huff of bemusement at Kaveh's grumbling.]
I could take off my own shirt, if that makes you feel better.
[He's sort of halfway there already anyway, since he had to take off his gloves (and rings) in order to facilitate this massage in the first place. His cape is also gone for now, used to hold all of his discarded accessories in one place (the Vision has been attached to his hip in the same fashion as Kaveh's) so all he pretty much has left for his top is his shirt.
Regardless of Kaveh's response to his comment (or if he even gives one at all), Alhaitham turns his focus to the task of giving Kaveh that backrub. It's been a while since he's done this at all, but seeing as how Kaveh has been one of the two people he'd even given a backrub to before (in the past, when they were still students) a lot of it surprisingly feels like less of a blind fumble and more of a rediscovery of things he thought he'd forgotten but actually not, simply left behind to be picked up again when the time comes, such as right now.]
he will carry him like the most precious thing...
I could take off my own shirt, if that makes you feel better.
[He's sort of halfway there already anyway, since he had to take off his gloves (and rings) in order to facilitate this massage in the first place. His cape is also gone for now, used to hold all of his discarded accessories in one place (the Vision has been attached to his hip in the same fashion as Kaveh's) so all he pretty much has left for his top is his shirt.
Regardless of Kaveh's response to his comment (or if he even gives one at all), Alhaitham turns his focus to the task of giving Kaveh that backrub. It's been a while since he's done this at all, but seeing as how Kaveh has been one of the two people he'd even given a backrub to before (in the past, when they were still students) a lot of it surprisingly feels like less of a blind fumble and more of a rediscovery of things he thought he'd forgotten but actually not, simply left behind to be picked up again when the time comes, such as right now.]