[He'll need a moment as well. For rather... obvious reasons. But after that moment passes, he swallows, even manages to breath out a single word that sounds loud in the silence that's fallen between them.]
Ace...
[That's about as much as he can say. Because he never anticipated this meeting. Not even in his dreams (and there were many) did he ever imagine he would see him again like this. He'd gone over what he would do when he reunited with Luffy a thousand times before he actually arrived on Dressrosa. Even then, it took two years and over coming a whole lot of anxiety and fear to get to that point. This. Nothing could have prepared him for it.]