For the moment he allows himself to feel just that contact. Close. Such a small and innocuous thing, but it feels intimate in a way that is different from everything they have yet done. No expectation of anything else, which makes it sting less when the Dark Urge says what he does.

"You're certain."

He did offer further before. But something they found here already feels just as heavy on him, and he is feeling the hour more and more.

So it is to leave the door open for an answer. But also accepting if it stays as it is.