Niko automatically reaches to steady the mug, although he has to look away shyly and chuckle at Blythe's line, twitterpated as he is. "I, uh... I'm going to have to figure out what to say to all these kind things you keep saying to me. 'Cause I'm not used to this," he laughs fondly. "You're the best thing that's happened to me in a long time."

Looking at the braces seems to jog his memory suddenly. "Oh! Which reminds me! How are your fingers? Are they swollen at all?"