He was trained at a very young age (too young some would say) to be pleasing in all ways, even just to look at; always in his proper place, never asking to be noticed, but wordlessly commanding attention when warranted.

This isn't too different. It is worlds apart, but as he has come to learn in Taxon, different worlds can nestle very closely together sometimes. This display, this aim to please, he does of his own volition and willing. Not because he wants to, but because he himself wants to. And therein lies the difference.

The offer of reciprocation, though, is both a surprise and a small shock. He needs remind himself to raise himself up, to lessen the distance rather than increase it. So he sits up a touch straighter, turning where he sits to better face his friend (and if he should brush his blue toned hair back to reveal the length of his neck, well, that's just another way of being pleasing to the eye). "Yes. I would love that."