It was a good joke to pass by, for now. In a few more months, maybe, things will start to click in the humour department. For now, it was best not.

But it also was, apparently, the best thing to hear at a moment like this. The smile was brief, but briefly genuine.

"It's-- important. To know that." He moved to steal another ball of dough from the box rather than dropping to the stones again. "To know where-- people are. Yes?"