Inej had told him all she could about this place and he is still working on processing that. About where he'll go from here, what he wants in this place. If this is going to be his world for who knows how long, then he needs to find his path... and theirs. For all of them, with no thought in his head that it wouldn't be just as it had been in the Barrel.

And she had told him about Jesper being there. So when that flash of bright green comes through the door, he straightens to watch him as he moves through the room. Taking in the way he dresses, that he goes for his own drink behind the bar as if its as much home as the Crow Club had been, and how he clutches that box tight to his chest.

Then that familiar gaze turns to him.

Not rising, mostly because of the pain in his leg that he's working to hide, gesturing Jesper closer as if he needs that permission. Right until those words.

For the briefest of moments there's a look on his face that is nearly shock, and worse in his mind, uncertain. If he was willing for that kind of contact, would he want Jesper to kiss him? Its not a thought he needs now and he pushes it away.

"So I've been told you and Inej decided to rush off and start a new empire for us," he says in that dry way of taunting he had.