"S-Sorry," he says, but he can't bring himself to let go regardless. He's not actively sobbing at the moment, but he's worried and tense. What's more, he's somehow allowing this embrace to happen in public without any defensiveness at all. My, how things change.

"I didn't...I didn't know what happened and you weren't here and..."

God, no one in Pride is ever going to take him seriously again but he just can't stop.