"Didn't expect to have that effect but it's nice to know I still got it." Joking was easy when the sight of Poseidon's smile and the sound of his laugh were just as Thaumas remembered them.
Familiarity was something didn't think he'd ever regain after resurfacing and realising that the world he knew was no longer there. Stumbling into Iris, however, had pushed gates he'd believed closed for good wide open and the past came pouring through it in waves.
"I'm happy to see you up and about," he said, sounding genuine, and clasped the Olympian's shoulder briefly in a firm grip. "Because," Thaumas added in a lighter tone, as he picked up his bags, "I'm much too old for camping out on the beach and getting arrested for it."