[The bird trills again, almost laughs. It doesn't understand having an emotional attachment to a dead body, but it's cute that Absinthe does. There's a good dose of condescension in that reaction, too.

But Absinthe can probably ignore that, because Levity sure is rather flustered by the admission and implications of it.

Would that mean that he does care for me, I wonder...

Though there is a conscious effort from Levity to suppress it, it still flashes through: the brief memory of when he'd told Cardinal and Glory that he doesn't mind being hurt if he knows there's care behind it, back when he'd talked to them about what might happen in games.]