Steven's other hand comes up to stroke Hythlodaeus' hair. "I'm not surprised," he says gently. "You do a decent job of faking it, but sometimes you go a bit blank. But hell, I use polite blankness enough that I wasn't going to be a dick and call you on it. You don't have to force it around me if you don't want to. If it's easier not to, then don't. If our time together is for me to learn from you, it's also to give you somewhere you don't have to pretend."