[Lup may remember this group with little break, but Taako, in a way, is still recovering. Sure, ten years versus a hundred feels like nothing, but a few months vs ten years is everything when it comes to regaining his sense of self. He's spent so long thinking it was him on his own, meeting Magnus and Merle again was the outreach he never knew he needed. And it's only grown from there. Angus McDonald, who somehow against all odds he's come to really care for. Kravitz, who... god, where does he even start with Kravitz. Carey and Killian and their jokes and sparring, and finally remembering he had a family all along. It's still jarring, especially with Hadriel getting in the way. All of this is still a surprise. All of it is still so, so big.]

Oh please, everyone here is a fucking disaster in their own right. We're better than they deserve.

[He leans into her poke, sticking his tongue out playfully in her direction, especially since he just contradicted his last statement right in front of her.]

I'unno. It just, like... keeps happening. People keep liking us or something? Like, really liking us, not just like, our bullshit?

[Taako's eyes are drifting over the crowd, but Lup can probably see they're actually following Kravitz, just a little, Taako's face resting at a gentle smile when he sees the other man laugh at something in conversation and forgetting to keep talking from there on out.]