Caduceus huffed out a breath that could have been surprise or it could have been a laugh. It was very much mostly the former, but there was no need to point that out. The surprise had come from the frisson that had shivered its way up his body at Caleb's comment. He wasn't that good at picking up suggestion, but perhaps his own slip had made him hear things with a little more colour.
"There are plenty of places in the tower you could pull me aside," he replied, wanting to sound as though that were a reasonable solution to the others being around, but which only made his words seem more heated.
He drew in another breath.
"We do, and we are all haunted, but we share a lot of the things that burden us. I know yours are deeply personal, I know you've been through things many of us can't understand or relate to, I'm not asking you to unpack all of that. I wouldn't. I just want you to know that you can let go of a lot more than you are right now, and we'll all take it. Well-" he shrugged just as Caleb turned. His hands remained at Caleb's shoulders, though it was easy to let them slide over, to cup the sides of the other man's face.
They were very close.
"-it's only me right now," Caduceus said softly, a gentle smile on his face as his gaze tracked slowly over the freckles on Caleb's nose, to his eyes and down to his mouth, then back round again. "But I can take anything you want to give me, Caleb. Whatever will help you relax or de-stress, or help you calm your brain."
If he breathed in too deep their chests would touch. If he moved any part of him they would make a lot more contact, beneath the water or otherwise. He'd never been in this position before. Never stood so close to someone he felt such affection for. But he was enjoying it, the warmth that seemed to be filling him in slow waves, and if Caleb didn't want to move away then Caduceus wasn't going to ask him to. He shifted one hand slightly, pushing some of Caleb's hair back behind his ear, all of his senses being overstimulated in the most wonderful way. He could just hang here, in this moment, and be perfectly content with the world.