I'm relieved to hear you're not too polite for it.
[ He may say it lightly, but it does come from a place of care. Dimitri takes so much on himself and seems so reluctant to risk troubling others on his own account.
So when he speaks again, he's shed the airiness of casual banter. ]
...If you want to sometime, I don't mind lending an ear.
[ Just so he knows. Yuri isn't too sure whether Dimitri would want to or not, but it's worth offering. Only once he does, he wonders if it may have been a misstep, and busies himself with his dinner. ]
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[ He may say it lightly, but it does come from a place of care. Dimitri takes so much on himself and seems so reluctant to risk troubling others on his own account.
So when he speaks again, he's shed the airiness of casual banter. ]
...If you want to sometime, I don't mind lending an ear.
[ Just so he knows. Yuri isn't too sure whether Dimitri would want to or not, but it's worth offering. Only once he does, he wonders if it may have been a misstep, and busies himself with his dinner. ]